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To: Charles R who wrote (109629)	5/7/2000 11:27:00 AM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576615

Charles, I'm somewhat in agreement on this one, I can't quite see what a "webpad" offers over a cheap laptop, and the laptop infrastructure seems to be mostly off the shelf now. Well, you can't buy the components off of pricewatch, but there's enough no-name laptops around that I assume the pieces can all be had fairly easily in qty 1000 lots anyway. As another comparison, the Netpliance i-opener, which was briefly in the news when it seemed you could get it for $100, was claimed to have a hardware manufacturing cost of $400, with a 10 inch (passive) LCD screen. The rest of the hardware was pretty minimal, winchip CPU, 32meg, no disk (16m flash though), and a modem, no wireless bits, no battery. I don't know, but given history, I assume that if the webpad starts to take off, we'll see $500 laptops real quick. Cheers, Dan.