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To: Bearded One who wrote (24114)	12/3/1997 7:26:00 PM
From: Meathead	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 176388

My response got trashed so I'll only recreate some of it Businesses on average pay $1500 for Desktops not $2800. If someone doesn't need the extra features they can do one of two things: a) buy them b) not buy them. This is the way people have been doing it for a very long time<gg> Workstations DO NOT make good servers. There are tremendous differences in the way that they're desinged from memory support to disk I/O, fault tolerance, video performance etc. etc. Anyone who tried to buy a WS for use as a server at their company would probably be fired. The other point is, there's nothing magically low about the Epson price. It's ~$150 cheaper than the Dell. I assume you are one of those who believes that a PC is a PC is a PC. Correct? You can't adequately compare systems feature for feature if you don't understand all of the thechnicals. You surely can't compare across segments like you were trying to do with Dell's workstation vs. EPSON's home machine. ASP's are trending down. That is understood. If you go back 10 years you'll see that they've have consistently trended down while PC companies have made more and more money. I have an old 1990 ad for a Dell 25Mhz 486... $8500. Can you believe that!?! I've been going over the latest IDC report. It talks about Dell's latest quarter with an interesting spin. It also talks about the impact of declining ASP's. I'll rehash the salient points and post later this evening. cheers MEATHEAD