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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bill Jackson who wrote (111420)	5/17/2000 11:25:00 PM
From: Buckwheat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575175

Bill, when you consider the missing components that you still must add (memory, cpu, hard drive, speakers, mouse, keyboard, monitor, etc) the book PCs are probably more profitable than the traditional sub-$600 desktop PC. The book PCs sell for $169 and $229 in the Atlanta area for the CD and DVD models. The going rate for a budget/basic traditional celeron desktop model (with everything except the monitor) is $389. Now which one looks unprofitable?? Another thing to keep in mind is that the book PC has a highly integrated chipset (sound, video, NIC, modem, etc is all built in). I personally wouldn't want one of these for home use, but I'm leaning more and more towards employing some of them on my network. I have to pay network administrators and computer specialists too much damned money to fix unnecessary problems that many of my customers create from their traditional desktops. Buckwheat