To All, The attack of the killer Celerys seems to have been a one week wonder. The only store to solo lead with a Celery box in the ads in the Sunday paper was CompUSA, and they were the only ones not to lead with it last week. The delivery of their check from Intel must have been delayed. <g> They have another Celery inside, a PII, a PIII and three AMD boxes.
Best Buy does not even have a computer on the front page. It does have an E-Machines Cyrix box, printer and monitor for $599 on the back cover. Inside, 3 AMD ads take pride of place while two PIII priced up boogers scrape the bottom of the page. A NEC PIII full system for under $1500 is featured on Page 4.
Office Depot leads with an E-Machines Cyrix 333 for $399, and a monitor can be added for a c note. HP has a Celery 366 next to it on the cover for $1099.
Circus City leads with a Packard Bell Cyrix 333 for $799. It includes monitor and printer, but still looks mighty pricey when compared to an E-Machines box. Inside, they give cramped, texty ads to their overpriced build it yourself boxes. Very small pictures. Much larger pictures of the AMD boxes. The prices are better than the build your own silliness, but still way above E-Machines.
The way it looks, Intel's big push on Celerys spent most of its budget last week and the stores are back to featuring AMDs. PIIs are showing up more often as the price comes down. And the stores look to be taking one more half-hearted stab at flogging the PIII crap with the lower prices from Intel. |
