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To: TechMkt who wrote (86152)	12/19/1998 1:22:00 PM
From: TechMkt	Respond to of 176388

What's good for Quanta should be good for DELL. Fez ______________________ Quanta IPO Sparks Investor Feeding Frenzy in Taiwan Taipei, Dec. 19 (Bloomberg) -- For the people lucky enough to buy shares in Quanta Computer, Taiwan's biggest notebook computer maker, this Christmas season will be very merry indeed. Almost 650,000 applications were filed to buy Quanta, a decade-old company that is selling stock for the first time. So popular is the sale that the right to buy Quanta shares now trade for NT$500 ($15.50), a third higher than the asking price. It may be nothing short of a sure thing. For NT$30, investors can apply to buy 1,000 Quanta shares. That means a profit of NT$125,000 if the stock matches its gray-market performance. ''It's a very strong buy, definitely,'' said John Tsai, a senior analyst at Fubon Securities Investment Trust, which manages NT$24.5 billion. ''The company is very well managed.'' A computer drawing to select winners in Taiwan's most popular new share sale in more than a year will be held Monday. Applications by retail investors for the sale, which was 64.7 times oversubscribed -- were accepted between Dec. 14 and Dec. 17. Sales Surge Founded in Taipei in 1988 by Lin Pai-li, a 48-year-old Hong Kong native who received a master's degree in electrical engineering from National Taiwan University, Quanta sold 1.4 million notebooks this year to customers such as Dell Computer Corp. and Gateway 2000. That's about the same as the combined notebook sales of Quanta's two closet rivals, Acer Inc. and Inventec Corp

To: TechMkt who wrote (86152)	12/19/1998 3:18:00 PM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 176388

Christmas I just got back from helping a neighbor go Christmas shopping. Natrually the present of choice is a new Dell computer. We went out to the factory outlet. It was pretty crowded. The neighbor didn't understand the outlet. He had seen a specific machine on an advertising leaflet and thought it would just be sitting on the shelf in that configuration. Well the outlet is full of all sorts of machines which have been ordered and returned, or swapped because of problems and fixed, or built as a pilot project. It seemed no two are alike and you have to run around looking at each one to find the mix of features you want . You save money but it is way different from ordering a custom configuration off the net. He picked up a Dimension 450Mhz with expanded audio and video much storage and memory and a DAT tape drive backup. $1600 all together. There's going to be some happy game players on Christmas morning. TP