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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: geewiz who wrote (26675)	3/13/1998 3:41:00 PM
From: Knighty Tin	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 132070

GW, Fundamentals don't matter to Gateway. It is a big ugly Tulip bulb. -g- I am glad to see that somebody noted that the lies the pc makers have been telling about robust demand were actually wishful thinking. I saw a Compaq 180 Mhz "Media GX" pc today for $599 at one of the major retailers. How GTW can even stay in business competing against those types of prices is beyond me. My guess is that they are bleeding right now and will have a warning before the next eps report. We can look to MUEI for some clues, and that should come soon. As has been said here many times, the higher priced pcs just don't offer enough to a broad enough audience to stimulate big demand. A guy in The Houston Chronicle this morning was claiming faster mpcs, buses, and better graphics would make all pcs obsolete by the end of the year. Nonsense. The Internet is the main spur for new sales, and home office applications for repeat sales. You can't word process faster than you can type, unless you are a plagiarist. -g- Extra speed will be great for the gamers, but, for the rest of us, it's a big yawn until we have an app we need to speed up. It's like that car that broke the sound barrier in Utah. The key to the average person is how much trunk room does it have. -g- MB