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To: mrknowitall who wrote (65040)	9/11/1998 12:39:00 PM
From: Boplicity	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 176387

mrk, re: toward commoditization at the consumer end I keep hearing this, but I don't think this will happen totally. Low end maybe as bandwidth increases (Have you played with a an iMAC yet? Nice video, nice computer all around, beats all these sub 1k and any wintel machine in that price range if we had the bandwidth, the iMAC would be a great home computer. Apple could make them like TVs, now that is commoditization) The latest and greatest will always be a draw. I have pent 90 at home that is fast becoming junk, when I bought it was high end. I was getting commments Like: "What do you need all that memory for 1 gig, 32 megs is too much" Of course I had to add a harddrive and more ram and another modem. Greg

To: mrknowitall who wrote (65040)	9/12/1998 11:54:00 AM
From: divvie	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 176387

I have been talking about this dual path future on the bear thread with Bilow, trying to say that when the consumer market does change such that sub $300 set top boxes can do most of what most people want from a PC, then the Sonys of this world will move in and DELL will have to rely on the corporate world. Not a bad thing. NT is storming into the enterprise and, thanks to MSFT's inability to make it scale, you need a lot of clustered NT servers to compete against Unix. That means more boxes to buy. Good for DELL bad for GTW in, as you pointed out, their concerted move into the consumer market. My point was that someone is going to come up with a killer OS (maybe Psion with their partnership with ERICY and NOKA, maybe Xerox out of PARC) that is just what is needed in the consumer market so that someone like my mother can operate whatever it is, but the corporate market will stay wedded to the PC that we know today because of NT's interminable popularity!