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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Investor A who wrote (29321)	3/2/1998 10:02:00 PM
From: Bill Jackson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572866

IBM ($799): The sub-$800 machine will be in the PC 300 GL family, with a 180-MHz MediaGX processor, a 2.5GB hard drive, and 16MB of RAM. This is a 133 Mhz equivalent versus the 233 MHZ HP product. Take your pick for the application you have. Speech recognition with dragon dictate, the HP wins. Word processing, the IBM works fine and the other will be incrementally faster and hold more documents, is all. In fact the IBM and HP are non standard and I would buy neither as they have no good upgrade paths. HP ($1260): A system with a 233-MHz Pentium II processor, 32MB of RAM, a 3.2GB hard drive, and the latest version of TopTools will start at $1,260.