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Politics : Ask Michael Burke
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To: edamo who wrote (57706)4/27/1999 7:42:00 PM
From: Stefan  Read Replies (1) of 132070
 
I know you are hard headed like the rest of the DELLheads so it might be futile to provide a definition from a dictionary but here it is

com-mod-i-ty (k-modi-te)n.pl. com-mod-i-ties. 1. Something useful that can be turned to commercial or other advantage. 2. An article of trade or commerce, especially an agricultural or mining product, that can be transported. 3. Advantage; benefit. 4. Obsolete. A quantity; lot.[Middle English commodite, from Old French, convenience, from Latin commoditas, from commodus, convenient. See COMMODIOUS.]

Please don't hang on to the word "especially".

PCs are commodities, just like DRAM is so is Pentium. Intel employees themselves will tell you that they are producing a commodity product (at least ones who make capital equipment purchase decisions).
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