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To: Travis who wrote (12425)	4/30/1998 7:55:00 PM
From: J R KARY	Respond to of 213177

IBM is one of AAPL's pricing problems at $4,599 They are advertising the thin case , 4 1/2 lb feature , with a 266 mz Pentium II . Strangely IBM omits trade marking Intel using "Pentium" instead . I suspect IBM , when price threatened (Asia etc), will offer a even lower priced AMD 266mz etc . IBM is also promoting a separate networking "docking" station for the two new models of ThinkPads . AAPL has a marketing attraction with a high powered small footprint PowerBook but IBM senses it time to forego margin for marketshare . Like Alomex noted , there are business people who will buy it , but from what pricing I saw at O'Grady I doubt there will be many . It could be a pre-announcement price game , as I hope AAPL is not being fooled by the Byte Mark tests into pricing complacency . Regards, Jim K. ref post : Message 4273542 infoworld.com