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To: Lev Belov who wrote (39011)	11/5/1997 4:26:00 PM
From: John Chen	Respond to of 186894

Lev, sorry, can't agree on 'keep buying more expensive PCs'. Especially not for the 'corporate buyer' (meaning those buying in the 1000's). A smart terminal (or dump PC) is enough sitting on a network of more powerful servers. The problem in desktop PCs is management, configuration control, system administration, ..etc. It's OK for small office and home use. Buy a lower-cost one and throw it away when the useful life expires (no need to upgrade, it's more expensive than buying a new one). Also, sub-zero is a 'figurative term', it does not mean 'junk' as some keep trying to paint those machine to be. A pentium-166 WAS a dream machine a year or so ago, what make it a 'junk' in a year. Just because INTEL needs to sell new higher price product should not render its 'last-year's dream CPU' a 'junk'. The ONLY HOPE for intel in the CPU market is CYRIX/AMD screwed up on production. No, I don't mean INTEL will lose market share much, I mean money/ profit margin wise, this is not INTEL has a good handle on. "Try IE4 on ...". I'm hoping I don't need to. NC is my surfing machine. Wish someone organize the 'linux' thing and forget about MSFT/Bill.