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To: Paul Engel who wrote (94521)	2/22/2000 12:36:00 AM
From: kash johal	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573921

Paul, re:Sony vs Dell Well it was several reasons. When i bought the dell it was ordered with a 15" screen and a celeron 366. Unfortunately it took 45 days from order to delivery. The machine was great however but heavy. I decided to give it away and buy myself a new toy. I was interested in the speedsteps as well. When i priced the latest machines out the sony was very competitive at $2799 including a dvd, 9gb, 64M, firewire, 14" screen and cumine 500 all for 7lbs or so. And i could pick one up right away at fry's. Plus the sonys have a really cool design. regards, Kash

To: Paul Engel who wrote (94521)	2/22/2000 1:24:00 AM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573921

Paul, RE:"I have a Sony laptop - an older 166 MHz Pentium MMX - but was actually thinking of switching over to Dell for a new SpeedStep"... Compaq has SpeedStep configurable notebooks on their website. compaq.com. I like the Sonys too but mainly the small ones...Compaq gives better value on the larger size ones... Interesting they have found a way not to send copies of the software with the notebook...not even Win98. They send a restore disk and I think when you run it it decompresses a stored copy already on your HD. Or so it seems. Jim