Price free fall hits high end
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Micron's new Millennia XKU 233 comes with a 233-MHz Pentium II, 32MB of memory, a 2.1GB hard drive, a CD-ROM drive, and a 17-monitor, all for $1,999. The configuration closely mirrors Gateway's G6-233, which was discounted to $1,999 earlier this month. A review of online computer resellers shows that similarly configured systems from other vendors are selling for approximately $2,300 and up.
NEC's new configuration for its Direction PC features a 300-MHz Pentium II, 32MB of SDRAM, a 4.3 GB hard drive, a CD-ROM drive, and a 15-inch monitor. The sale price of $2,199 is currently far below the price of similarly configured systems from other vendors, which are selling for $2,800 and above.
All I can say is wow, these PC makers sure know how to tempt a person.
CPQ is doing all the right things, evidently. I think GTW is coming around and will be improving. I should buy some, but I don't really like to with the take-over rumor premium in the stock. A lot of stocks I'm in came down significantly off their daily high today, but I think all were at least positive on the day. I think nervousness prior to IBM and MSFT reporting caused a lot of people to have second thoughts of holding until those two factors became known. Tomorrow should be a fairly normal average up day (is that possible in the stock market? -g-). We'll see.
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