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Dell to unveil $959 consumer PC with Web access
By Eric Auchard
NEW YORK, July 27 (Reuters) - Dell Computer Corp. (Nasdaq:DELL - news) said it plans on Tuesday to offer a full-featured consumer personal computer, with a year's free Internet service, priced at $959 in a bid to navigate the fast-changing currents of the low-cost PC market.
The new Dell's home PC offer, which come with a year's access to the company's Dellnet Internet service for U.S. customers, offers few if any sacrifices compared to subsidized PC offers that exclude key PC components like monitors or ask for a 3-year Internet commitment.
The new Dell PCs come with an Intel Celeron 400 megahertz computer chip, a keyboard, monitor, Microsoft Windows 98 and Works application software, a 3-year warranty and online technical support and a range of useful Internet services.
Established PC makers like Dell, which have traditionally focused on the power-hungry instead of the entry-level PC user, have been struggling to find ways to meet the challenge of ''free'' or ''nearly free'' $299 PC offers from new PC vendors and major Internet providers like America Online Inc. (NYSE:AOL - news |
