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To: kemble s. matter who wrote (141887)	9/10/1999 10:13:00 PM
From: Bandit19	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 176387

Kemble, Hi. Re:I suppose we all know that there are a few companies that are way ahead of DELL in this area...We're the new kid so to speak...I'm excited because DELL has always been the new kid with their other products...It doesn't take a genius to figure out that the distance they've conquered in a short period of time is nothing short of stunning...This is a huge market here..and a huge opportunity for many..."THE STRUCTURAL ADVANTAGE THAT WE HAVE IS NOT SOMETHING THAT'S EASILY COPIED OR EMULATED SO THE SHARE WILL GO TO THE MOST PROFICIENT PROVIDER AND THAT'S DELL." That was a great post. Thanks I saw this on the street.com.... How Easy is Easy? Intel CEO Craig Barrett may be frustrated that personal computers are still not user-friendly, but the headache-free PC is still a ways away. Heading the effort to produce the perfect PC is Steve Whalley of Intel's desktop products group. Whalley's team has figured out how to get all the plugs for things like hard drives, mice and printers to be interchangeable so that plugging them in is easier. The team's biggest headache, one that Intel doesn't control, rests in all that preinstalled software that gets loaded on packaged PCs. Boxmakers try to differentiate their products partly by offering customers nifty software. "We did a lot of studies and found that people were confused when they had a choice of six Internet service providers," Whalley says. Whalley is trying to pressure boxmakers to make superfluous software available for users who want them, but in a way that doesn't confuse the people who don't. Not all consumers need a computer that does everything. "We learned that in the VCR industry," he says. "So much was programmed into them that four-year-olds were the only ones that could get them to work." I think DELL's, have it your way, 'customer-ized computer' wins here too. I never looked forward to a Monday...let alone one with a TV a commercial more! Have a good weekend, Steve