1.- Dry-out of G3 sales.
I have no idea how many of the purported 27 million Apple users will upgrade to G3.
Might I point out that there are two sides to this issue...
Pentium II lacks killer software
By Michael Kanellos
Staff Writer, CNET NEWS.COM
April 16, 1998, 1:15 p.m. PT
Complex, data-heavy Web sites and business applications that only the fastest desktop computers can process are scarce, but these are exactly what Intel needs to drive sales of its Pentium II chip.
At the moment, few business applications require buyers to graduate from low-end Pentium MMX computers to Pentium II systems...
Kimball Brown, an analyst at Dataquest... maintains that anything faster than this relatively low-end chip is overkill for the vast majority of buyers running standard business applications.
Brown also says that the Windows 98 operating system coming in June offers little that's new or different from Windows 95 and does not require a Pentium II upgrade. DVD titles and games require the processing brawn of the Pentium II, but those are part of a limited consumer market so far.
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Ian Bruce
New York, NY |
