RE:There have been many independent research reports which conclude that the average PC price in corporate America will NOT drop, and will most likely stay the same.
Can you post links to the reports please? Sub-$1000s are very new in the corporate market, so Q4 will be the first quarter in which we may see their impact.
Here's what I've seen.
Matt Sargent, an analyst at Computer Intelligence said that few sub-$1,000 computers have been sold into the corporate market, although that could change as more major manufacturers target the
price point.
Only 1.9 percent of the computers sold through the dealer channel in October fit that profile, he said. Most of those sales were based around the IBM PC 300 GL. (Dealers are generally considered the main conduit, besides mail order, of computers to medium to large businesses.)
Until now, corporate users have gravitated toward the $1,000 to $1,500 segment, which accounted for 46 percent of dealer sales in October.
news.com
techweb.com
Since the IBM PC 300 GL, all the top-tier PC vendors have introduced CORPORATE sub-$1000 PCs(Dell excluded, but if you buy enough, they might be able to do it). |
