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To: James Fink who wrote (35517)	3/25/1998 1:37:00 PM
From: Fangorn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 176387

James, Comp USA machines are months old, DELL's were built last week (if you get it today, having ordered last week) with the latest and lowest price components. Make sure you are comparing machines that are actually the same.

To: James Fink who wrote (35517)	3/25/1998 2:04:00 PM
From: Lee	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 176387

James Fink,..Re:<<PCs are a commodity>> Crude, silver and refrigerators are commodities also, and in the strictest sense of the word, I suppose a bare bones pc could be categorized similarly. But the fact is that there are a number of configurations which are specific to application needs. We don't really order refrigerators with net connection cards (to control temperatures or ice making remotely) or video cards to display the various temperature control setpoints and targets do we? Therefore, I would argue that as long as we have a multitude of applications for PCs; and therefore, a number of configuration possibilities, that categorizing a PC as a commodity is a bit premature. Lee