Hewlett-Packard Co has slashed prices on its PC and workstation lines by up to 20%. The price cuts affect HP’s Vectra corporate PCs, Brio business PCs, Kayak PC workstations and OmniBook notebooks. The are effective immediately. A Vectra VE corporate PC with 333-MHz Celeron processor, 4.3Gb hard drive, 32Mb SDRAM and 3Com 10/100 Ethernet card can now be had for an estimated street price of $774 – a 20% drop. The basic price of Brio PCs drop below $700. High-end Kayak workstations with 450-MHz Pentium, 9.1Gb SCSI drive, 128Mb SDRAM and Permidia graphics controller drop 7% in price to $3,100, with low-end versions falling 4% to $1,740. Prices for the OmniBook 4100 notebook dropped 9% to $3,500. HP says it’s passing along recent price reductions from suppliers.
