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To: John Donahoe who wrote (52080)	4/21/1999 3:32:00 PM
From: KeepItSimple	Respond to of 164684

>These under $200 must be basic low end junk. Without any extra's. Right? Right now, yes. The E-machines selling for 399 are basically crap. But consider these component costs. (chip only, no pcb or packaging) 10/100 ethernet -- $8 from intel TNT video 16 megs ram -- $30 from nvidia & samsung 333 mhz cpu -- $100 from intel soundblaster 16 bit audio -- $17 from creative intel PII chipset -- $25 from intel cdrom -- $30 from multiple vendors now you've only got the ram and harddrive. ram is about 200 bucks for 128 megs. the hard drive is the sticking point, an 18 gig costs about 700 bucks. as you can see, the above components will give you a top of the line system for almost nothing, if those individual OEM chips were ever assembled on one board. (it's being done as we speak, btw)