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To: Shadow who wrote (131258)	6/4/1999 11:54:00 PM
From: arthur pritchard	Respond to of 176387

shadow: thanks for the info...looks like a lot of planning went into these efforts...thanks again...

To: Shadow who wrote (131258)	6/5/1999 12:49:00 AM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 176387

From The Industry Standard Newsletter...FYI... <<METRICS ~~~~~~~ Half of American Homes Now Have PCs Though analysts have declared the coming end to the PC era, new research from ZD InfoBead shows another 6.4 million American households acquired PCs in the past year. That brings the PC-owning total to 52 million, or 50 percent of homes. And lower-income households accounted for the greatest percentage of new PCs homes. Percent of U.S. Households With PCs 1997 40.3% 1998 44.8% 1999 50.3% Household Income Comparison U.S. HHs PC HHs HHs Bought a PC in '98 Less Than $30,000 38.6% 22.9% 28.3% $30,000 to $49,999 23.5% 24.5% 25.2% $50,000 to $74,999 19.2% 25.3% 24.0% $75,000 or more 18.7% 27.3% 22.5% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% From a survey of 11,000 U.S. adults. Source: ZD InfoBeads, May 1999 Get to know more about Internet business by the numbers, with the analysis to make it useful, at thestandard.com >>

To: Shadow who wrote (131258)	6/5/1999 10:00:00 AM
From: Howard Cragg	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 176387

In my area, there is a lot of competition for home and small business computers. For example, in today's paper there are at least 5 different 1 and 2 page ads from medium size computer stores. These stores advertise different systems( Compaq, HP, IBM, Packard Bell, and A-Open Pro). An example of A-Open Pro- Pentium III 450MMX, 128M Ram, 10 gig hard drive, DVD CD ROM, speakers, 56K modem, WIN 98, encyclopedia, 17" SVGA monitor, HP color printer, full page photo scanner, a software bundle, cellular phone, color camera, accessory kit(for the camera?), 1 hour class, $100.00 off extended warranty, set up & demo, deluxe joystick, office suite, 0% financing- no money down- no interest for 1 year.(Might as well as throw in a kitchen sink too!) All that for $730.15. That's only one of the ads. With this kind of cut-throat business, it would seem to be very hard for Dell to do a significant amount of (home and small business) computer sales in my area.