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To: greenspirit who wrote (40492)	11/16/1997 9:56:00 PM
From: Jay	Respond to of 186894

Re "Big Sales for PCs Under $1,000 " As an Intel long and as one who bought a Compaq $999 PC in Aug for my son - the principal reason I bought it was that the next one up the chain at that time (the 4508) was $1499 for just a few extra features. I think with a better (and closer) price spread we will see that consumers will not get the absolute cheapest PC but something a little better and more long-lived. Just three months after buying it, the hard disk is now close to full and he is clamoring for more D-RAM - unfortunately SDRAM has not yet reached the real cheapo outlets so I will shortly have to spend $200 for 32 Megs of Compaq SDRAM. BTW the PC has no L2 cache, 1 meg of video ram and 48 megs of max RAM capacity. IMO the box makers are in many ways in Intel's camp too - they will build the super cheap PCs in such a way that 6-12 months later the buyer will be looking to upgrade. So what we may see is a vastly increased number of new users looking to get serious PCs in the near future. Just MHO. JB