Speaking of actual PC sales (as someone was asking a couple of weeks ago), I got a PC Connection catalogue yesterday, and the Toshiba 4000 CDS notebook was listed at $1199--$200 less than the best prices so far at Best Buy or CompUSA. This has a 266 Pentium II, 32 megs memory, a Yamaha stereo sound system, a 24X CD, a floppy, a 4.1 meg hard drive, a Lion battery, a 56K modem, and they told on the phone it has Windows 98 thought the catalogue says 95. I had been waiting for the 2515 to drop another couple of hundred dollars (it's the same, except the CPU is a plain 266 Pentium), but think I will go with this one.
So here I go, unstopping the pipeline! In six months it might be down another $300, but I have to start thinking about taxes and don't have anything at all at home right now.
Quick and Reilly seems to be having some trouble handling the LEAP puts that I bought yesterday on XLK, the S&P Technology index spyder. They bought them, supposedly, but the symbol doesn't go into their system. I must be their only customer for those. The CBOE never did show my purchase. I guess it will get straightened out. |
