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To: Chris Nevil who wrote (14185)	5/31/1998 10:46:00 PM
From: soup	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213177

94% >Soup, you appear to have clearly misstated Gateway's program. As I've seen it advertised, it's simply a lease that lets you turn in the machine for an upgraded model each two years and continue the same monthly payment.< Chris; I didn't misstate. I just repeated what their CEO said. Either way, it's the same thing. Every two years, you start from scratch paying for a new Gateway (vs. three to ten years for Macs depending on the applications used.) Wintel forces people to replace their CPUs by creating new standards incompatible with old CPU's. AAPL has great backwards compatibility and tries to induce people to upgrade by pushing the performance envelope. For example, the current MacOS 8.1 can be run perfectly well on 68040 CPUs manufactured as far back as 1991(!) Even though AAPL is certainly losing revenue by having its machines last so long (not to mention alienating retailers who've become used to Wintel's planned obsolesence) I think they can still capitalize on this as a selling point. Like the old Volvo commercials: "94% of all Volvos ever made are still on the road today." soup