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To: FR1 who wrote (48297)	6/20/1998 12:29:00 AM
From: chuckie	Respond to of 176387

We'll see. After the MM manipulation today to hold DELL at 85 for options expiry, Monday could prove very sloppy. Another Black Helicopter moron wrote this earlier in the thread. I said last week and I'll say it again. Get a grip people. This stock is in the grips of a general market malaise. Want to make money, buy an internet stock and pray, 24 hrs a day, 7 days a week that bad news doesn't come out. By the way, selling Dell calls is proving to be quite profitable. Go up go down, doesn't matter. The best part of it is when the stock surges so do the options (in fact disproportionately so). One example was the Dell July 95, traded in a 1 5/16 to 2 7/8 range. 2 7/8's you say? Thats right and if you time it right you can always find some loser willing to believe that 2billion in Fed intervention will be the savior, the knight in shining armor to Japan. The YEN is $#@!ed !! The 135-136 level will soon be gone . hello 145!!! What's the fed going to friggin do? prop up this Asian disaster. Mexico was small potatoes, this is Japan. Forget the short term picture fellow Dellers, look long because short term (I mean the next 2-3 months) this stock will be range bound. Chuckie Thanks home.sprynet.com

To: FR1 who wrote (48297)	6/23/1998 12:21:00 PM
From: Jim Patterson	Respond to of 176387

RE: I think this is a little like people in 1982 saying: "One megabyte of ram!! My god, why would anyone ever need a whole megabyte of ram? It's overkill!! Nobody will ever use it!" <<<More than 4 MB on a video card is overkill Everybody wants bigger monitors, sharper screens and multiple monitors. Wall size will be fine, thank you.>> I agree with you, But... A few years ago, I realised that once computers could handle 256 or more likely 64K colors and run that in a game @ 30 FPS, a major hurdle will have been reached and after that it will take time for software to demand much more than that. We may disagree, but I think we are in this flat spot right now. Will it last days weeks months or years, I await the consumer app that wants / need more than 4MB on a V Card. <<More than 5 GB on a HD is overkill Everybody wants to download and have their favorite movie, songs, educational programs, etc close at hand to use. There is no end to storage demands. Let's talk terrabytes.>> Again this is debatable. Tell you what, Go out and talk to some normal computer users and see what you get. I have a feeling you will find that most of them have less than 50-60% of their HDD full. >>>More than a P II 266 is overkill Everybody needs as fast a processor as possible if we are working with volumes of data. If you ask a program to demonstrate something that you request, rendering a character is the way to go. Let's talk parallel processing.<<< There will always be a need for more power at some level. But today, there is very little diferance in a P II 266 and a 400 for most users. Maybe this is a market segmentation comment on my part. PB will have a 333 box out for >$1500 soon. that is a lot of power to check E-Mail. >>>More than a 33.6 modem is overkill Everybody will have @Home, roadrunner or some equivalent that is at least at T1. Nobody wants slow.<<< Here I guess we just plain old disagree. I know everyone is forcasting giant demand for xDSL and Cable modems Etc, But I don't think the consumer will go out of his way to make that happen. It is not that 33.6 is Good, it is that the alternative is too expensive and complex for regular users. In a nut shell, In 1990, I know that more, faster, bigger, Hardware was way behind. In 1998, I see the opposite. Jim