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To: NickSE who wrote (42157)	5/14/1998 7:00:00 PM
From: D.J.Smyth	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 176387

<<"Realistically, at some point business customers are going to say, 'Explain to me why I am spending $2,500 bucks for a PC when a slightly less robust version sells for less than $1,000,'" said Matthews.>> hello? it's called productivity. the speed difference bw a 400mhz and a 166mhz is quite telling. an employee can sit around twittling or the company can buy dell's latest, fastest model. how does $600 per system break down per hour in lost time? it is estimated that processing speed can save up to 80 hours per year per employee (that's nearly two full weeks). you compound this difference over the next four years and add in the compounding cost of the lost time and... "slightly less robust version"? he doesn't use a Dell.