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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (99625)	3/23/2000 3:07:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Respond to of 1574679

Meanwhile, Mikey Dell ships a 800 cumine! Somewhat to the buyer's regret, unfortunately. From today's NYT: Shoppers' PC Shuffle: Order and Reorder nytimes.com So last November I ordered an expensive new computer from Dell, one that had a top-of-the-line 733-megahertz Pentium III chip and a fancy, high-speed memory subsystem from a company called Rambus. But the Rambus system depended on a special Intel chip set that Intel had trouble producing. Although Dell had said the computer would be shipped by Dec. 15, all I got for Christmas was an e-mail message saying Dell could not even give an estimate of the delivery date until mid-February. The message actually came as a relief. Within minutes after placing my order, I had been afflicted by buyer's remorse. The Rambus memory system is extravagantly expensive, more than twice the cost of conventional memory chips. Given a second chance, I ordered a faster but cheaper and less exotic machine. . . . Ok, the date above is a little unclear. But: Unfortunately, I forgot to cancel my last order. My new 800-MHz Dell system showed up at my door this week. It is not even out of the box, and it already is way behind on the power curve. But there is something comforting in that. It is too much work trying to live in the future. Poor Peter Lewis, he should have changed his order to a gigamine, maybe he could have made it a full year's wait. Live and learn, as they say. At least he didn't get stuck with a Rambus system. Cheers, Dan.