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To: Scotsman who wrote (8051)	3/6/1998 12:33:00 AM
From: Carl Wysocki	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

Scotsman, I fully agree with you. It may come to pass that the PC market starts resembling the car market. You can buy the low end PC or a Metro(god, that's an ugly car), which both provide basic functionality, or buy a BMW, 333Mhz model. Me, I went low end, with a display that exceeded 50% of the system cost, and software add-ons that added another 50%. Now, I just want a cable modem and the opportunity to pay $40+/mo for cable access. The hardware is almost insignificant in the grand scheme of things, and I tried to minimize the cost(I really wanted a 21" display, but settled for a Sony 17"). But, I personally would never embrace the thin client model. I don't want my Quicken files or TurboTax files resident on anyone else's server, until capital punishment becomes a viable remedy for a tortious act. So, right now, I believe that the NC and sub $1k PC are on different evolutionary paths. They don't compete with one another. It does appear that the early earnings warning season is now in full bloom. I'm coming to the belief that one needs to have a holding portfolio and a trading portfolio to capture the opportunities this market volatility provides. Of course, one never knows whether the current downdraft is another buying opportunity, or the beginning of some unforseen bear market. Oh, well, if it's the beginning of a bear, I'll just have to go back to work. Carl

To: Scotsman who wrote (8051)	3/6/1998 10:36:00 AM
From: Judd	Respond to of 64865

I agree with your view of the PC becoming a commodity item. Cheap computers surf the internet just fine. Its now the network into your house that is the serious bottleneck. As far as upgrading to Windows 98, I am sure that there will be planned incompatibilities built into it. MS will force software companies to write for 98, and the latest and greatest software won't work with your 95. You will then need a AMD K6-400 (or Pentium) machine to run all that crap of an OS. Isn't MS putting something into 98 to allow you to receive channels, or web pages through a video card in Win98? I could see that attracting new customers. Of course there is no reason this should have to be built into the OS. I didn't want to upgrade to NT4.0, but I had to, and I really hope that I don't have to put that monolithic NT5.0 on my machine. I mostly use Linux anymore.