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To: Z Analyzer who wrote (5945)	3/28/1999 12:25:00 AM
From: Mark Oliver	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9256

<I hav eto agree with Lawrence here. Even before cable modems, the power desktop users will stillbe around. Dell customers and Pentium II buyers won't become single platter U-2 wimps all of a sudden. -Z > So, is a large drive a sign of masculinity? No manager can be seen to be a wimp sporting a single platter drive? It seems like the market for corporate buyers would have already shifted to smaller drives as they have fast connections now which would make storage of most information at the server a reality vs the home user who will see fast connections only in the next few years. But really many desktop's at work are simple machines. If it's true that Win 3.1 is still the most used operating system, it's not hard to see most of these PC's have smaller disk drives than 4 gig today. So, they all of a sudden need to upgrade to 12 or 20 gig? One can easily see all sorts of video presentations being sent through to the troops via e-mail, but then all the upper management has to become TV like personalities. I've often wondered if quarterly conference calls were replaced with video internet downloads how much the personality of the CEO would overtake the numbers being presented. But, power users in the business world. Who are they? Engineers doing CAD/CAM? These other people, salesmen, middle managers, etc. I don't understand why they should need such big hard drives? Will the bosses want them to have great archives, or see information managed centrally to keep uniformity? Regards, Mark