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To: Joe NYC who wrote (29961)	10/20/1998 7:04:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Respond to of 33344

Joe - Re: " What's neat (for the consumer) is that you can get MII-300 for < $70." That IS quite an incentive, isn't it? Paul

To: Joe NYC who wrote (29961)	10/20/1998 9:49:00 PM
From: Craig Freeman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 33344

Jozef, for $60 more than an MII/300 you can get a CeleronA/300. If you ever want to play a game, you will be MUCH happier. And, on a BH6 mobo, you might get lucky and end up with a CeleronA/450. I am amazed at how this thread ponders savings of $50-$100 on a CPU. By the time you outfit a PC with printer, monitor, software, and supplies -- anything under $100 represents a meaningless percentage. If you want to cheapest possible PC, why not go with a Winchip? Or a used 486? But why "invest" in a 200MB 486 when there are 80MB 386 systems out there? And if you look hard enough, there might even be an original dual-floppy IBM PC in someone's garage. Scrounge around and you're sure to find some DOS browser shareware. A $25 Internet PC .. yeh .. that's the ticket! A small savings may move machines at the retail level but IMHO anyone with the money to buy tech shares ought to know better than to be penny-wise and pound foolish. Craig