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To: Scumbria who wrote (67902)	11/4/1998 7:25:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Respond to of 186894

<That is true. The next wave is sub-$500 computers.> Scumbria, I remember my first real home computer, an Atari 800XL, which cost my parents $300. Of course, it didn't come with a monitor, since you hook it up to the TV Nintendo-style. It also didn't come with a disk drive; that I forgot how much it cost. But it did have BASIC built into the ROM, plus a ROM cartridge slot for games and other software. The only way that sub-$500 computers are going to become the "next wave" as you say is if we go back to the form of Atari 800XL or Commodore 64, i.e. a computer inside a fat keyboard. There's just too much in fixed costs these days within even the sub-$1000 computer. Tenchusatsu

To: Scumbria who wrote (67902)	11/4/1998 7:42:00 PM
From: Joey Smith	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Scumbria, remember that it is in the OEM's best interest to not compete upon price, but instead on value-added features. OEM margins are higher on high-performance PCs than sub $1000. I don't know how much a big PC maker can make on a $599 PC, but it's not much. joey

To: Scumbria who wrote (67902)	11/4/1998 7:54:00 PM
From: Randy Ellingson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Obviously the author, and the people interviewed, were highly knowledgable about computers. (There is nothing like a 450 MHz CPU for speeding up internet access.) I can do a great deal more (and more useful) surfing in an hour over a modem on a PII 450 MHz than on a P166 -- sure, it's not twice as fast, but the system speed does help. If you're talking starting a download and walking away, that's a different matter; then the systems should be very close. Randy