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To: Ali Chen who wrote (39104)	10/13/1998 12:28:00 AM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) of 1573709

Ali, re: <You may have a great "desire to possess" a most powerful x86, but you cannot get a great public perception from it, and therefore the computers in their current form cannot carry the same relative premium as Porsche to Acura.> Yeah, I guess you're right in a sense. There's much more of the "status symbol" behind Porsche over that "cow" company. Perhaps a better analogy would be those high-end Digital Dolby sound systems connected to the home theatre setups, including DVD, the HDTV projection screen, and satellite dish. Or maybe the deal behind those flat-panel LCD monitors which you can hang on the wall. Or ... Oh what the heck. Gateway is just pandering to guys like me who would spend 3x the normal price of a hard drive just to get the 10,000 RPM SCSI version. We're few in numbers, but hopefully Gateway knows this. Intel sure knows that the Xeon isn't meant to be sold in huge numbers. Tenchusatsu

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