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To: Sig who wrote (86552)	12/22/1998 1:47:00 PM
From: Mohan Marette	Respond to of 176387

What's next, corduroy blazers with elbow patches? DailyTish (on Dell/AOL) Sig: Here is a bit of amusing reading from funny girl Tish,I think I am beginning to like her.<vbg> ============================================ (Courtesy: Upside) Scandalous Dell Slumming-DailyTish December 22, 1998 She was a dancer from the wrong side of the tracks. An electric smile, those legs and a look that attracted men like mosquitoes to the bug zapper. He was an uptight guy, raised with a stern hand, educated at the kind of schools where the tiny little men-to-be wear blazers and khakis. He had the right cars, the right girlfriends and the right Ivy League education. No stopping him. Until their eyes locked. AOL, cigarette drooping out of the corner of her red-lined lips, plunging neckline and body that wouldn't quit, stirring the little plastic sword around her vodka tonic. Dell, just waiting for a friend to show up so he could head off to somewhere nicer. Instead, Kip never showed, and Dell spent the night making AOL laugh, as she tossed back her mane of thick hair. It was electric. It didn't make sense to anybody, but there was no sense fighting chemistry. Monday AOL and Dell held hands and announced that starting next week, Dell would distribute its Dimension and Inspiron computers bundled with AOL's 4.0 CDs, with the software coming preinstalled on Dell machines in early 1999. A direct-order computer house selling big machines to big companies, dropping the bomb that it would offer a little-respected proprietary online service browser a break. Don't get me wrong, AOL has a lot going for it. It turns heads like software rarely does; it has pure magnetism; and everybody from Wall Street to Silicon Valley has drooled over the opportunity to nibble behind its neck. But Dell? Dell has no tenderness for slumming--it's been fighting the urge to provide low-end computers at sub-$1,000 prices. Hewlett-Packard slashed its prices by 20 percent Monday, but Dell is betting it won't have to, based on its inventory superiority. Dell's fighting to remain blue-blooded in an increasingly middle-class world. Why AOL? Where's the weakness? Where's the predilection for online services that usually appeal to new consumers, not seasoned Dell buyers? You'd think Dell would be aiming for nothing less than Fortune 500 buyers with browsers and supergallactic OC 48 Internet connection speeds. I'm not one to start rumors, but Dell's Dimension line is creeping down to the $1,000 figure. And the Inspiron laptops are breaking through the $2,000 barrier. What's next, corduroy blazers with elbow patches? AOL and Dell, quite the scandalous couple. AOL's friendly curves are always wiggling, but to see tight-laced Dell loopy in puppy love ... Who would've imagined? Let the scandal begin! (Tish Williams is senior writer/editor at UPSIDE.)