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vpr Matrix Recaps First Year Milestones
Announces Email-Sign-Up For New Product Announcements
MINNEAPOLIS, March 4, 2003 - vpr Matrix, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Best Buy, enters its second full fiscal year this week with a recap of some of its milestones from last year. In addition, vpr Matrix has announced that due to the popularity of its current line of desktop and notebook PCs, most models are currently sold out. To assist prospective customers, vpr Matrix has added a sign-up form at vprMatrix.com for email notification of new product launches.
Among the company's milestones for its last fiscal year, were:
- vpr Matrix desktop PCs were among the first ever consumer PCs created with RAID-ready motherboards.
- The vpr Matrix 200A5 notebook was one of the first Windows-based notebooks to include a wide screen for enhanced movie viewing. It also included Sonopür, an enhanced 24-bit audio system.
- Porsche Design GmbH of Austria and vpr Matrix broke new ground in the industrial design of PCs with highly praised designs for desktop PCs, notebooks and monitors.
- vpr Matrix Desktop and notebook computers received very high scores in testing from major computer magazines, and numerous awards, including:
- Four-out-of-five star ratings on several products from PC World Magazine
- Named "Best Computer -- Mobile Entertainment Center" at Comdex by Jon Peddie Research
- Named "Best Computer --Desktop" and "Best Computer -- Notebook" by Dwight Silverman, Computing Columnist for the Houston Chronicle
- Named "Best Sound" from a Notebook by Popular Science Magazine
- Positive reviews from CNET, TechEdge Magazine, Laptop Magazine, Newsday.com, Detroit News, Indianapolis Star, and St. Paul Pioneer Press, and Philadelphia Inquirer
- vpr Matrix was the subject of Stewart Alsop's Infotech column in the Feb. 4 issue of Fortune magazine. He wrote about buying the vpr Matrix 9100PE desktop model, and said: "The computer itself is better, and better looking, than my sister-in-law's new Dell....The best way to put it is that it should take more than two years for this computer to start feeling old and slow!"
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