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To: TwoToTango who wrote (65347)	9/13/1998 7:55:00 PM
From: t36	Respond to of 176387

i think michael dell is brilliant and i believe he will have the answer to any competition or problems that dell would face...only my opinion..

To: TwoToTango who wrote (65347)	9/14/1998 2:43:00 AM
From: Stewart Walton	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 176387

Hi 22Tango, I think the PC will do what the telephone and the TV have done: become ubiquitous and protean. The appliances are beginning to appear (PDA's, web TV), and the shapes of PC are starting to multiply (desktop, laptop, handheld, wearable, etc). The market for the desktop and portable PC will continue to grow, and the market for the others will grow too. It won't be uncommon for a home to have multiple access points to the web, thru the PC, a kitchen device, and a PDA, not to mention the TV. So what? You still want a PC to do spreadsheets and taxes and games. And if you only get one kind, it'll be a PC. But businesses (Dell''s main market) don't want the appliances, and certainly don't want net PC's. I think Dell has a big market left to conquer. I'd like to propose a little survey for the thread, which I'll post the results here if there's enough interest: How many PC's do you have access to at home? And whats the CPU and speed? PM, email or post are OK. At my house: Toshiba portable Intel 486 66 Clone desktop AMD 586 133 Clone desktop Intel Pentium 133 Regards, Stewart

To: TwoToTango who wrote (65347)	9/14/1998 1:05:00 PM
From: Mohan Marette	Respond to of 176387

Whatever happened to the NC?The PC is the NC,did you know??? Tango: Did read The Economist article "After the PC",interesting article but here is a counter argument for the Economist titled "The Un-PC" =============================================== Source:Forbes The Network Computer was supposed to break Microsoft's hammerlock on the consumer market. It scared Gates a bit-but did him no damage. The un-PC By Julie Pitta REMEMBER the Network Computer, that $500 Web surfer that was going to grab the mass market away from the PC? Only a few people would need personal computers. The masses would buy a simple gadget and use it to bring the Internet to the family TV set. Three years after Oracle chief Larry Ellison introduced the concept amid much fanfare at a computer industry powwow, the NC looks ready for a Smithsonian exhibition on promising technologies that went nowhere. Oracle and a half-dozen other outfits spent roughly $1 billion on NCs, including R&D and acquisitions, and have little to show for it: Fewer than 1 million were sold in 1997, as against some 80 million PCs. What happened? For one thing, PCs got cheaper. Today's PCs sell for as little as $900. "The PC became the NC," Ellison admits. "I'll be remembered for bringing down the price of a PC," he adds ruefully. That's only part of it. The NC was as complex as the PC but couldn't do a fraction of the things a PC could do. Ellison's and Sun Chairman McNealy's NCs were little more than stripped-down PCs using Sun's Java instead of Microsoft's Windows. Why were smart guys like Ellison and McNealy so wrong about the NC? We suspect a bit of wishful thinking. In their passion to one-up Bill Gates, they allowed the wish to become father to the conviction. Even so, Ellison and McNealy had Gates worried. In response, last April Gates bought WebTV, a Silicon Valley startup that invented a computer allowing Web surfing on a TV. At the same time Microsoft developed a streamlined version of Windows for so-called dumb terminals. Gates, too, has gotten slight return for his investment in NCs. WebTV has sold a modest 400,000 units, Oracle and Sun even fewer. Microsoft still rules.