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To: Suresh who wrote (18574)	11/27/1998 3:28:00 PM
From: Clint E.	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 70974

Hi Suresh. Are they saying that IBM is heading for 180? Won't surprise me. Here is something on YHOO that talks about IBM too....not that I agree with what he says about IBM vs. HIT... fnews.yahoo.com Is this Cramer guy any good? You and Iris have sent me a couple of his write ups but a while ago I saw a thread on SI who was bad mouthing him because he was calling for a crash as the DOW was heading back up from 7400. Clint

To: Suresh who wrote (18574)	11/27/1998 5:00:00 PM
From: Gerald Walls	Respond to of 70974

I am lost for words here for the market action. Irrational exuberance? :-)

To: Suresh who wrote (18574)	11/30/1998 12:48:00 AM
From: Clint E.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 70974

Hi Suresh. Since you are a Macintosh kind of guy, I shoot this your way. I read an article in the PC World(Dec issue) that compared an iMac($1300) system against a Packard Bell 333Mhz Celeron PC($998). It basically said that iMac is easy to set up(if you connect to ELNK) out of box and video sharpness is superior but it lags in CPU performance and audio quality. They said it doesn't worth the extra $300, not to mention that you have to pay another $70 to get a floppy drive....That means they have to drop prices soon. Is AAPL a good short in the coming months? I know that we have removed almost all our Macs and moved to NT-based PCs at work. I wonder if other corps. are doing the same. Secondly, I read that the bottom is falling out of the voice-recognition software industry. IBM, LHSPF, Dragon Systems.... have dropped prices by as much as 50% in order to steer customers into buying and fuel volume sales during the holiday season. We should keep an eye on LHSPF in the coming months. Clint