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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Matt Kaarlela who wrote (35998)	8/14/1998 5:29:00 PM
From: Bill Jackson	Respond to of 1574043

I had always thought that OEM windows was around $60 US$. It has crept up froma few years ago when dos licences were in the $15 range. Does anyone know what a major like Dell or CPQ pays for Win95/98? Bill

To: Matt Kaarlela who wrote (35998)	8/14/1998 5:55:00 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1574043

Matt, You expect a Keyboard, mouse and speakers for that price? <VBG> I expect Microcenter expects to sell some service plans to compensate for service costs. OK...let's try this again... MediaGX and board...70 16 meg RAM 10 Keyboard 7 Mouse 5 Speakers 5 Modem 25 CDRom 35 Box 15 Assembly 25 S&H 15 HD 1.6gig 75 Floppy 8 OS 15 ---------------------------- Total 310 ((399-310)/399)*100=22.3% profit margin. I really don't think Microcenter would attempt anything like this unless they could get 20% margins. I know small vendors at shows that sell AMD-233 systems w 1 gig HDs for under $375. I also know what they can get components for so my prices aren't too out of line. Jim