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Technology Stocks : COMS & the Ghost of USRX w/ other STUFF -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jeff Sheeran who wrote (11762)	1/18/1998 12:23:00 PM
From: Scrapps	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 22053

Jeff I have only looked at one recordable CD ROM drive and will look into the rewritable as you mention. Thanks for pointing that out. As far as DVD goes I think your points are valid at the time, but think that will change substantially in the next six to twelve months. And since they are backwards compatible to previous CD ROM drives and will run all my currently owned CDs, I figure it best to get it as part of the main system. BUT they'll probably come out with writable ones the week after I buy mine and I'll regret it. I've got my preliminary specs. written up and have been shopping them at the box maker's Web stores. CPQ & HP are out, they can't provide the configuration choices I'm looking for. That leaves Dell, Gateway and Micron (I have two Microns and love them). It is surprising how you can configure each brand so as to compare apples to apples. Dell beat the other two in price everytime. Thanks for the speaker input I was wondering if I should go with the Altec 295s or the 495s, I do a lot of late night work on the PC and like to play music CDs while I do it, I'll leave those 495s in my specs. for now. Thanks, Scrapps

To: Jeff Sheeran who wrote (11762)	1/19/1998 12:53:00 AM
From: Dwight E. Karlsen	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 22053

Jeff, funny you should mention Gateway and Boston Acoustic Speakers. The Jan. 6, 1998 PC Magazine has a review of sound cards and speakers. It's a good article, particularly the speaker part. They had good things to say about the Boston Acoustics. They review both Boston Acoustics MicroMedia ($219 list) and Boston Acoustics MediaTheater ($349 list). The MediaTheater come with the Gateway G6-300XL, whereas the BA Micromedias come with the G6-266 and G6-300, and the D5-166 (Destination). Both sets were not in the "official" part of the review, but were in a sidebar review of "High-End Speakers", along with ones from Bose, Cambridge Soundworks, and Yamaha. PC Mag reviewers were extremely impressed with the MediaTheater system, which they say "...and the organ bass on the bundled Surround Test I CD was literally room-shaking---it actually blew out a lighted match held up to the port of the subwoofer!" Also a couple of issues back in PC Mag, John Dvorak was impressed enough with the quality of the Boston Acoustics MicroMedia speakers to say, "for $200, just order them". To be fair, anyone looking for speakers should read the Jan 6 1998 review, because the editors also really liked other speakers as well, and in fact gave Editor's Choice to both Altec Lansing ACS48 ($150 street), and Cambridge SoundWorks ($200 street). DK