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To: Goutam who wrote (74777)10/9/1999 11:32:00 PM
From: Ali Chen  Respond to of 1573073
 
Goutama, <Mind you, this is one online store giving current status of their online Shopping carts.>

It would be nice if others could do the same.
Meanwhile, I have today's impression from the
local Best Buy, Saturday afternoon:

First look - totally dead season. Obviously bad.

Second look: notebook display holds 3 celeron-based
and 5 K6-based notebooks, with raincheck boxes for
2 K6 models priced around $1000. No raincheck boxes
for Intel-based notebooks...

Third look - two guys are pulling a cart with
IBM Aptiva E590 (Athlon-550), with pink rain-check
slip on the box. Two other Aptivas with pink slips
were waiting on shelves for their owners.
Several more E575 (600MHz) and E795 (? 650MHz)
models are in stock.

A salesperson described Athlons as "hot items".
He however noted that his overall impression
is 50-50 between Intel-based and AMD-based computers.
Obviously he has longer observation base :)

Regards,
- Ali