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To: John F. Dowd who wrote (25441)	7/3/1999 5:36:00 PM
From: John F. Dowd	Read Replies (2) of 74651

To All: For those that think the Free PC is the death of PC I see it quite to the contrary. This will lead to people buying real PC's with real software that can do real "stuff" after they buy a free PC. This is like the early Z80 machines from Radio Shack or the Sinclair craze. Please read the following to give yourselves an idea of why I think this way: From Raging Bull: ".......For the consumer, however, this isn't such a screaming bargain. Why? EMachines' eTower (with a 2.1-gigabyte hard drive, 32 megabytes of RAM and a Cyrix M II 333 processor) will likely seem outdated, compared with most comparable PCs priced at $400 just six months from now. It's no secret that PC prices continue to plummet. Even if a subscriber decides to discard the eTower for a new PC within the next three years, he or she will still be stuck paying $21.95 a month for the next 36 months for the Internet service. It's not the type of deal I would jump at, but the prospect of a free computer will probably appeal to many others." JFD

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