To: Skeeter Bug who wrote (24439 ) 7/9/1999 2:44:00 PM From: Dave B Read Replies (3) | Respond to
Skeeter,because they can . My father bought a $399 computer to surf the web, then he saw my scanner and decided he wanted to scan in photographs as well. So he bought a scanner and plugged it in. Once he's saves an image, it takes almost 5 minutes to bring it up on the screen. 5 minutes! And then half the time the image comes out in funky colors because the memory that came with the system is so low. He's had the machine in to the "shop" about a dozen times to have things fixed (some he caused himself as a naive user). He specifically told me one day that he would not buy one of these low-end machines again. The $399 systems are good to get people in the market, but after they start using them they'll want to do more. And once they see exactly what kind of performance they get with these more advanced capabilities, they'll be disappointed and their next system will be a more powerful system. Packard Bell tried to sell on price alone through retail and they succeeded in expanding the PC market just as e-machines is doing, but it died because quality and performance were still issues.
