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To: gnuman who wrote (47708)	2/17/1999 7:47:00 PM
From: Peter Singleton	Respond to of 132070

Gene, re: <<re: Wow, that article makes me nervous for HWP. It makes me nervous for all the PC makers, especially Dell. From the article I sense it's getting ever more difficult to differentiate value in hardware>> I had the same reaction you did to the HP PC article. It reminded me of Steve Job's cosmically brilliant (or would that be insanely great <g>) innovation for 1999 - hold on to your seat ... color Imacs. Breathtaking, huh! Peter

To: gnuman who wrote (47708)	2/17/1999 8:58:00 PM
From: Tommaso	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 132070

I went ahead and got a notebook with a 266 Pentium II (Toshiba, for $1199), and I do not see any significant increase in what I use it for over the Pentium 75 that I had before. The jump to the Pentium 75 from a 486 25 was dramatic. But a Pentium 75 and a 14.4 modem is hardly any different from a 266 Pentium II and a 56 K modem (for word processing--including complex indexes--and Internet and even downloading). I realize the people with complex spreadsheets and people playing games will see a difference. Why did I do it? In retrospect, all I really needed was a CD drive, and I could have added a PMCIA CD drive for under $200, and that is what I should have done. Except that I did want my daughter ot have a laptop so that evert=y time she changes locale she does not have to try to stow the whole desktop mess in the car with everything else. Bottom line, as we say: I think there's lots of adequate equipment out there for many purposes, and that PC sales could drop drastically without incommoding millions of users.