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To: Thomas F. O'Connor who wrote (26675)	1/1/1998 6:01:00 PM
From: Meathead	Respond to of 176387

The two minimally configured machines are not equivelant. Compaq has machines specifically designed and targeted for sub-zero.. Dell does not. You must match the harware as close as possible to get an accurate asessment of pricing delta between any two companies. Dell's minimum configuration has far more features than everyone else so you must configure these other systems up to get accurate comparisons. In many cases, the internal architecture is different in terms of chipsets, memory performance, HD throughput, Video performance... etc. First time buyers don't see this or know anything about it. 2nd time buyers do. Therefore when they start to compare prices on decent systems with 32MB ram, 4MB video, 17 inch monitors, LX chipset w/ AGP etc., they find Dell to offer one of if not "the" best value. minimally configured machines may have been 40% of recent sales as reported in the Wall Street Jouurnal on Wednesday You've misquoted and left out one very important word in this statement. MEATHEAD