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Technology Stocks : The Learning Company (TLC)
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To: Thomas C. Donald who wrote (5301)8/14/1998 12:45:00 PM
From: Not a Short  Read Replies (1) of 6318
 
Are they?

It's certainly ironic that TLC will probably earn more than Microsoft on such a PC.

If a store sells OT III for $40 and makes their profit but TLC refunds the full amount to the customer then TLC loses money. Oregon Trail III is a very good product and this won't happen often in the Financial Worlds eyes but overly cheap PCs are just trouble for everybody.

Keep in mind these PCs have a Media GX processor. That processor doesn't handle graphics very well. DirectX titles like Oregon Trail III or 3D games like Team Apache will choke on that processor. You can run Word on a Media GX and you might do email but you won't use it as a general purpose Educational or Gaming computer.

Good processors for TLC are any Intel processor after the 486/100 (Including the Pentium Classic, Celeron, PII, Xeon), any AMD processor after the 5x86/133 (which is really a 486, the good ones include the K5, K6, K6-2 with 3D Now!, K7).

In multimedia applications you generally want to avoid any Cyrix processor. The FPU is just too slow.

Systems with integrated Video that can't be upgraded give the industry a bad name. We'll still see real usable $400 PCs you'll just have to wait until after Christmas for the price to drop on those $600 and $700 PCs that are out now. MediaGX is not the Silver Bullet.
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