Lewinsky-Dan and Intel Investors - The REAL P4 story !!!
After attending a football game (for Little Lucifer) this afternoon, we dropped by the Sunnyvale CompUSA store on our way home.
After looking around the PCs on display, I saw a rather unusual looking, large ORANGE box that I didn't recognize.
On closer inspection, it was an HP 9795C Pentium 4 PC, 1.4 GHz, 60 Gig, Hard Drive, 128 Meg DRDRAM, etc.
As I turned around, an elderly couple had two shopping carts, each filled with one of these Orange boxes, with the lady pushing one and a salesman pushing the other.
I inquired what they were buying and the couple literally BEAMED that they were buying the new Intel Pentium 4/HP computer (the second box was the Monitor).
These two were happier than a kid in a candy store and couldn't wait to get that Pentium 4 PC home, hooked up, and on-line !!
The gentleman pointed oput the price - $1799 AFTER a $400 rebate from CompuServe (??) [Monitor was extra !] - and they thought this wast he bargain of the century !
The salesman said they didn't have a Pentium 4 on display because they had to keep selling their display models - as the Pentium 4's kept arriving in small batches and sold out within a day of their arrival.
The HP Pentium 4's are easy to spot - instead of the DARK NAVY BLUE cartons used in their older PC lines, the 9795C Pentium 4 comes in a bright, mostly Orange carton (large - because of the mid-tower size of the PC), with light blue print sprinkled arounfd the carton.
Very Eye Catching !
So Blow-Hard Dan - THAT IS THE TRUE STORY of the Pentium 4 - so you can dispense with your Monica Blow-Hard immitations.
Paul |
