T, Intel's ad budget is huge for Tweak III. So far, the OEMs have brought out the number of boxes they were obligated to bring out, but the high prices don't seem to have many takers.
I agree about monitors. My gut feeling is that monitors haven't improved since 1994, so folks who are buying new boxes are not switching monitors. Also, since so many boxmakers and stores are offering free monitors as part of a cheap system, the number of folks buying the brand names are way down. You may not want a US Flapdoodle monitor, but if you get it free, you are sure as heck going to try it before you shell out $400 for a Compaq or Sony monitor.
That is another reason I don't like Leaps as much. You have too much on the table and it can make you sell before you are ready. I think we get a dead cat bounce here, but Compaq and Intel are looking downright puny and Dell may be in the 70s for awhile. It is hard to believe, but the blundering herd may be catching on that all in not well in PC City, after having Wall Street Week, Barron's and CNBS tell them "things have never been better," for so long. <g>
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