Mark,
Interesting designs. Compaq and Dell may get stomped if they ignore good design--
nytimes.com
Excerpt:
<<"The iMac has eaten everyone's lunch," Goss said. "What galls PC makers is that the iMac is a high-margin machine."
But the Z1 and Profile have very different genealogies than the iMac. What is giving rise to the flashy new desktop PC's, said Tim Bajarian, president of Creative Strategies in San Jose, Calif., is the flat-panel monitor, almost the antithesis of the iMac's retro-curvy box; in this area, the Japanese have been pioneers. Flat-panel monitors, generally costing four times as much as conventional monitors, are being used as the cornerstone of these supersleek computers for a simple reason: profits.
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<<A spokeswoman for Compaq, another pioneer in PC design and manufacturing, said that company was not making a new slim PC like the V1.
And in a meeting earlier this year with technology writers and editors from The New York Times, Michael Dell, chairman of the Dell Computer Corporation, said he did not envision big changes in how his company makes its desktop computers>>
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