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To: Mary Cluney who wrote (38745)	11/3/1997 9:59:00 AM
From: Joe NYC	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Mary, I just hope 90% on this planet are smart enough to spend this $1000 on some decent food and clothing, rather than give in to some marketing hype about a sub $1000 computer that's not going to do anything useful for them. Your typical $999 + monitor computer - Compaq Presario with Pentium 166 MMX has a CPU more powerful than top of the line CPU 1 year ago, which was Pentium Classic 200. People have done, and still do get a lot of productive work done on those machines. I don't know what changed over last year that would suddenly make these machines useless. The $799 + monitor Compaq Presario with MediaGX 180 has performance of the top of the line PCs from about a year and a half ago - Pentium 150 - Pentium 166. The last major software release was Windows 95. When it was released, all the computers were less powerful than today's $1,000 machines. Joe