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To: Mark Finger who wrote (3548)	9/24/1996 11:57:00 AM
From: Richard Forsythe	of 186894

There's still something missing though. If I take a Playstation, add a keyboard ($30), add some memory ($100), add the network/modem stuff ($200?) you get to $650-- about the same price as a low end PC sans disk drive. If Sony has thought of some huge cost saver, they could go into the PC business and clean up. If they haven't thought of something different, they must have cut functionality somewhere. Like the resolution of the screen; maybe text has to be big and ugly to be read. A good display card adds $150+ to the cost of a PC. My point is that the PC architecture is the lowest cost architecture around, if something is cheaper, it does less (or there's a loss-leader involved). If there is a market for games-only machines, someone will move there pretty quickly. Problem is, all the good games need the high end PCs. Wordperfect DOS users, on the other hand, are happy with old 286s. Richard

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