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To: Lucretius who wrote (74874)	10/27/1998 11:31:00 AM
From: Dalin	Respond to of 176387

IF PC'S become obsolete? I'm betting it would be DELL to come out with the replacement. Dalin

To: Lucretius who wrote (74874)	10/27/1998 11:31:00 AM
From: T L Comiskey	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 176387

I Agree...Its a few years away though...read at least 10-20...!! Tim

To: Lucretius who wrote (74874)	10/27/1998 11:40:00 AM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 176387

yea, I think PC's as we know them today will not exist... This prediction with no time frame will most certainly be correct someday. It may be that Dell will not see the replacement and so not be part of the next technology. There is considerable inertia in all products though and computers as we know it are still just getting started. Fast forward ten or twenty years and I will start to get worried about Dell being obsolete if they make no changes in the mean time. TP

To: Lucretius who wrote (74874)	10/27/1998 3:04:00 PM
From: jhg_in_kc	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 176387

LT, I hate to give you ammunition. But some "experts" have said the PC could be rivaled by the "internet appliance" years from now, a kind of dumb computer connected to the Internet and a MEGASERVER, which Bill Gates has just written about, his "visionary" memo released to the NY TImes and WSJ last week. But this is at least 5 to 10 years out I guess--if it happens at all-- and will not affect Dell's customer base, corporations and govenrments, etc., in a damaging way in my opinion. The so called internet appliance could hurt the sub 1000 PC makers though. But there is no evidence I've seen that this is just around the corner and that Dell's buggy whip days are at hand. This is a very distant concern. Anyone else have any thoughts on this remote threat? jhg