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Technology Stocks : Applied Materials No-Politics Thread (AMAT) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: BWAC who wrote (4565)	12/20/2002 9:14:02 PM
From: Gottfried	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 25522

BWAC, selective channel checks: I checked the local CompUSA ['nobody' buying. ONE check-out clerk] vs the local Fry's [almost crowded. Maybe 15+ check-out clerks busy. One associate directing customers to the next available check-out]. Fry's even had a guy stationed at the EXIT thanking me for shopping at Fry's. A first! Depending on which store I pick, my conclusion is entirely different. Gottfried

To: BWAC who wrote (4565)	12/20/2002 9:32:17 PM
From: Sarmad Y. Hermiz	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25522

>> I can't imagine what these people are doing on these $500 computers, with no software, when my $3000 machine from year 2000 is barely cranking along with the quotes I have streaming in on my dsl line. << In July I bought a new 1.8 GHz PC for myself. My kids hogged me out of it because it ran games that wouldn't run on their 500 MHz computer. They also claim that it shows internet pages much faster. So to reclaim my computer, I bought them a new 1.8 GHz H-P computer with an 18" LCD as a Christmas present yesterday. While I was in the store the isles were jammed with people buying computers. The sales help could not keep up with the customers. This was on a rainy cold and dark Thursday night. I have the strong impression that the PC makers did not "stuff the channel" this year. Though I did see a lot of E-machines at Best Buy. I don't think those are selling well, so there may be a big clearance on ultra-low-end machines in January.