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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (10414)	12/7/1997 4:16:00 PM
From: StockMan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 97611

Jimmy, Re -- Sell only Intel boxes? Why not? Why waste time/money on evaluating/supporting/testing crap such as the low volume 486GX (presario 2200). Stockman

To: Jim McMannis who wrote (10414)	12/7/1997 4:17:00 PM
From: hpeace	Respond to of 97611

thread, I'll post the bto pricing for small purchases on Monday. The Exxon pricing has got to be even lower.

To: Jim McMannis who wrote (10414)	12/7/1997 4:59:00 PM
From: hpeace	Respond to of 97611

InformationWeek, Friday, December 05, 1997 at 22:55 (Published on Monday, December 08, 1997 at 00:00) by Bob Francis PC vendors are delivering their second generation of sub-$1,000 corporate PCs. Compared to the first sub-$1,000 desktops, the new machines come in full-featured configurations. For example, Hewlett-Packard last week introduced Vectra VE systems that start below $1,000 for a unit with a 166-MHz Pentium MMX microprocessor, 16 Mbytes of fast SDRAM memory, a 1-Gbyte hard drive, and include management features found on HP's high-end models. "IS managers told us they wanted the same features across the product line," says Ken Bosley, an HP product marketing manager. Though this category so far accounts for a small proportion of corporate sales, many observers think it's here to stay. "We have to ask ourselves if it's really a good use of IS dollars to put a 300-MHz Pentium II processor on a desktop that's just doing spreadsheets and word processing," says John Peetz, chief knowledge officer at Ernst & Young in New York, which is considering low-end machines. Matt Sargent, an analyst with Computer Intelligence Inc. in La Jolla, Calif., says many IS execs are "just not seeing the need to move to faster processors that they did with the 486 and early Pentium chips." Whether that will remain the case is unclear. Intel plans to phase out the Pentium in favor of the Pentium II next year. IS managers also want to have machines powerful enough for Microsoft's forthcoming Windows NT 5.0. But vendors say demand for low-end systems should continue. "We believe there will still be strong customer demand for the Pentium-class product,'' says Michael Takamura, director of corporate desktops at Compaq Computer. IBM plans to have a sub-$1,500 Pentium II machine by the second quarter. Component price cuts are helping make the sub-$1,000 PC possible; so are new distribution efficiencies. Analysts say the top PC makers-Compaq, Dell, HP, and IBM-are grabbing market share from smaller ones. Once-high-flying AST Research Inc. announced last week that it's cutting 37% of its workforce to increase efficiency.

To: Jim McMannis who wrote (10414)	12/7/1997 5:35:00 PM
From: hpeace	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 97611

thread, well the disinforamtion abounds with dummies... FIC makes the 2200 completely. It's not a BTO unit like some say I'm spouting. I actually talked about the cyrx lowcost cpq last yr. and work a few hundred yds from where they are assembled so no way it's a BTO pc. Even posted the dream I had about the cyrx stk play I made in feb 97 I would look for the pentium pro sub k cpq pc's soon...consumer side Businesses have been buying sub k deskpros for a while and 1000-1100 deskpros for a yr now..and that's small volumes like I need now. Exxon-type compnaies gets the big discounts. Businesses will actually get more of the sub k's you will see when i post prices Monday. I wish Stockman would start making money so, he would stop his disruption... he's pissed bec. intel would be 150 a share now if it wasn't for amd or cyrx.