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To: Petz who wrote (20902)	11/28/2000 8:48:20 PM
From: ajbrenner	Respond to of 275872

Re:PC Club, a 24-store chain in California has all P4 systems on indefinite hold with no release date. John, The punch line to that would be "ya but they'll be cheaper when we get them" according to the Register. theregister.co.uk ajb

To: Petz who wrote (20902)	11/29/2000 1:04:31 AM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Petz - Be sure to include this in your anecdotal stories. [By the way - how many 1.2 Gig ThumperTurd/133/266 DDR systems did you see for sale? ] {=============================} The REAL P4 story !!! After attending a football game (for Little Lucifer) this afternoon, we dropped by the Sunnyvale CompUSA store on our way home. After looking around the PCs on display, I saw a rather unusual looking, large ORANGE box that I didn't recognize. On closer inspection, it was an HP 9795C Pentium 4 PC, 1.4 GHz, 60 Gig, Hard Drive, 128 Meg DRDRAM, etc. As I turned around, an elderly couple had two shopping carts, each filled with one of these Orange boxes, with the lady pushing one and a salesman pushing the other. I inquired what they were buying and the couple literally BEAMED that they were buying the new Intel Pentium 4/HP computer (the second box was the Monitor). These two were happier than a kid in a candy store and couldn't wait to get that Pentium 4 PC home, hooked up, and on-line !! The gentleman pointed oput the price - $1799 AFTER a $400 rebate from CompuServe (??) [Monitor was extra !] - and they thought this wast he bargain of the century ! The salesman said they didn't have a Pentium 4 on display because they had to keep selling their display models - as the Pentium 4's kept arriving in small batches and sold out within a day of their arrival. The HP Pentium 4's are easy to spot - instead of the DARK NAVY BLUE cartons used in their older PC lines, the 9795C Pentium 4 comes in a bright, mostly Orange carton (large - because of the mid-tower size of the PC), with light blue print sprinkled arounfd the carton. Very Eye Catching !