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To: mauser96 who wrote (43439)	12/30/1997 11:06:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 186894

Lucius and Intel Investors - Compaq Blows Down PC Prices to $699 - GUESS What's Inside! No, Not an AMD K6. No, No, No... Not a Cyrix MediaGX You guessed right! It's Intel Inside! Somebody Better Keep Fuchi off the Golden Gate Bridge! {================================} news.com Compaq hits new low: $699 By Brooke Crothers December 30, 1997, 6:30 p.m. PT update A Presario model from Compaq (CPQ) has pushed the price of a full-featured PC to as low as $699. With the Presario 4212ES, Compaq appears to be shattering yet another price barrier and possibly setting the stage for a new category of consumer systems priced well below $1,000. This model has also been sold to schools. Interestingly, the price point is being achieved with an Intel MMX Pentium processor, not an alternative chip from Cyrix or Advanced Micro Devices. The $699 Presario 4212ES is being sold through Computer Discount Warehouse (CDW), a major PC reseller, as a special holiday bundle. The box alone is $699; with a monitor the system sells for $899. "It's an excellent price point. "They'll keep hitting [the sub-$1,000 market] harder and harder," said Matt Sargent, an analyst at Computer Intelligence, a market research firm. By comparison, another Compaq model, the Cyrix-based Presario 2200, has been selling for $799 without a monitor and $999 with a monitor. The 4212ES comes with a 166-MHz MMX Pentium processor, a 2.1GB hard drive, a CD-ROM drive, a built-in Ethernet network connection, 16MB of memory, a 14-inch monitor, and software bundle including Microsoft Works, Microsoft Bookshelf, and Microsoft Encarta for $899. The system also boasts MPEG video playback technology and two Universal Serial Bus (USB) connections. The 4212ES offers no ability to add extra options inside the box, however. "You get what you see. You buy the box and get what's in the box and that's it," said a CDW representative, alluding to the lack of internal expansion. Options can be added externally by plugging them into the available ports. Like all PCs, the system comes with external connections such as serial and parallel ports as well as the USB ports. The USB connections allow hook up of consumer electronic products such as digital cameras. Paul

To: mauser96 who wrote (43439)	1/1/1998 11:37:00 PM
From: Barry A. Watzman	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

>re: Cable internet isn't cheap- it costs more than twice the usual phone $19.95 per month We have Time-Warner Road Runner here (Canton, Ohio, area), and it's $39.95/month, which is about the same as telephone internet access WITH a 2nd phone line. Installation (which includes the ethernet card) is $40, 1st three months are $19.95/month. I do think that these are among the more favorable rates available.

To: mauser96 who wrote (43439)	1/2/1998 12:03:00 AM
From: Joe NYC	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

LL, I agree with your premise that microprocessor speed is becoming less important. Intel investors need a breakthrough "must have" ap requiring faster computers. I posted a question here about a month ago about such a must have ap, but I only got general replies. I think people need incentives to upgrade. Something has to bother them about their daily use of their PCs. The only thing that continues to push demand on CPUs are games. I usually upgrade about once a year but it will probably be 18 to 24 months between upgrades now. My P200 is still fast enough to do almost everything I want done. I am in the same boat. My Cyrix P166+ is fine for just about everything I do at home, and my Pentium 166 at work is fine as well. Also, the technologies that are on sale now are all temporary. They will be sweapt by 100 MHz buses, faster SDRAM in about 3 months. 50% plus improvement in memory access combined with faster CPU will give you a far greater boost than just switching to a faster CPU. I would not spend money on another 66 MHz (memory bus speed) computer. Joe