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To: hpeace who wrote (10402)	12/7/1997 12:10:00 PM
From: Elwood P. Dowd	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 97611

Steve...do you the possibility of a warning from CPQ for 1st quarter '98, as discussed in response #24421 on the DELL thread? Thanx, Stephen

To: hpeace who wrote (10402)	12/8/1997 4:19:00 PM
From: Tim Bagwell	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 97611

Steve, I don't see the drive to sub-1k p233's and p266's like you say. I think the corporate customers are satisfied with p166's for the time being. So there isn't the market demand to go slashing prices across the board. The consumer who is buying the sub-1k machines doesn't know the difference between p166 and p233. They would rather have the multimedia gear and peripherals than a faster CPU. This is a population that doesn't even know what MMX means except that it sounds cool. I agree with your data entry thoughts. I just read a report of one company that is working on a computer in a vest that technicians can wear as they go troubleshooting or out in the stockroom. They want to implement voice recognition also for hands free interface. I think we will see more and more in this area. Just MHO.