To: Meathead who wrote (133290 ) 6/17/1999 6:16:00 PM From: Jill Read Replies (2) | Respond to
Meathead, I usually find your posts enlightening but you are off the mark here. I am saying that I am a willing high-end user, like many others out there, and spent 4K in the last 6 months to put together a good system with a great LCD monitor and now the same things, even more space saving and far better designed, are available for half the price and my timing was off or I'd have waited. I'm saying that other major computer companies feel it's enough of a market to invest significant $ and time in designing the next wave of computers, and I'm saying that beautiful design along with functionality makes a superior product. I'm saying that in industries where computers are crucial and used day in and day out for a whole host of business needs and applications, it's worth the cost. As I posted here some months ago I was at the ZDNET computer show at the Javitz center for the financial industry, and I saw what was being offered (unfortunately, I didn't see these new designs). The industry is clearly headed toward sleek powerful wireless designs with beautiful LCD screens--and other changes in the industry are also obvious, such as applications becoming more and more sophisticated, so that palm pilots and cellphones and pagers will soon be net-enabled and information will be easily transferrable from pc to these devices. Thats why Greg and others have suggested DELL brand some device like that. Since DELL has always put together high-end machines, they are behind the curve here. I believe this is a tactical error on their part. That's how I see it. It's not the whole market, but it's a significant and profitable slice of the market. I've been on this thread daily for a while now, and I'm also heavily invested in MSFT and I own no INTEL or IBM but I've been observing how those companies are positioning themselves, and I agree completely w/ Ed and others that DELL is simply doing what it always did--yes so well--but the landscape is changing, and I don't feel they are being aggressive enough in positioning themselves, shaping our perception of them rather than letting the analysts pummel them, and most of all, in purchasing the future...the way MSFT is doing.
