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To: JB Wings who wrote (152896)	2/3/2000 8:54:00 AM
From: edamo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 176387

jbwings "crap hwp unloaded???? dell's loss hwp's gain" crap or not still the sale of 350k units......a marketing coup by ms.carly's team........why be concerned of the configuration, main purpose is that ford management can be in contact with all global employees. guess the "dell web pc" was too expensive for such a plebian task. they go to work and have dell, but in the home the name brand/consumer recognition to the rest of the family will be hwp..... that in itself is a serious marketing error on the part of dell

To: JB Wings who wrote (152896)	2/3/2000 9:00:00 AM
From: rudedog	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 176387

jb - Am I missing something here? You sure are - what you're missing is the whole psychology of the consumer market, and the fact that DELL has only 1 credible consumer offering (the WebPC) which has made little impact in the consumer space. no one has addressed the CONFIGURATION of these "company supplied" computers,,, For the most part, the consumer PC market is closer to the consumer electronics market. Customers buy "the package". The configuration services that DELL offers corporate customers (which allow machines out of the box to match corporate standards, even including proprietary programs if desired) are of no benefit to consumers. The standard package is just fine... Hewlett-Packard provided computers are not going to be 500MHZ+/56K+ modems that most of us are using,,,, You should take a look at the HP Pavilion line - which outsells DELL 6 to 1 in the consumer space - if you think HP is producing some kind of obsolete clunkers. The weakest product in the lineup comes standard with 433MHz celeron, the same as WebPC, 56K modem, zip drive, 10GB hard drive, etc. all for less than $800... move up a notch in the line and you get 600MHz and 733 MHz products for not a lot more. UH OH!!! Who is going to pay for MAINTENANCE!?!?!!?? Don't tell me you get it all for $5 a month. HP's consumer product service is as good as anyones and users get 1 year free. The reality is that DELL does not have their consumer program together, does not have much of a product line, and has no presence in that business, and HP is the #2 vendor behind CPQ. DELL is not in the top 5. But you're entitled to your opinion I guess. everyone else in the business is a helpless dinosaur and there must have been some hanky panky, DELL could not have lost on the merits...