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To: Lost1 who wrote (1582)	6/10/2002 10:47:41 AM
From: Original Mad Dog	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3287

April was one of the worst PC sales months in recent years, with sales down 22.5 percent for U.S. retailers, leaving the largest retail PC seller, Hewlett-Packard (news - web sites), with 10 weeks of inventory for Compaq (news - web sites) PCs and seven weeks for HP PCs, according to NPD Techworld. Normally, three weeks is considered ideal. I suspect DELL is doing better than that. This could be largely an HP/Compaq problem, due to declining quality over the years and perhaps loss of focus due to the merger. A marriage between two people who figure they'd better get hitched because the ugliness is closing in fast always ends up being a marriage between two ugly people before long.