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To: HAL9000
A $499 Mac. Apple will sell tons of these things.

Don't be too sure. This is a bare bones system. Wally World is selling a 2.4 gHz WinTel system from HP that includes OS, an Office Suit (Not Microsoft), modem, nic, kb, mouse, speakers and a 15" LCD flat panel for $469!

The Mac world is all over this as a great deal, but the real world will just see a system that still needs hundreds of dollars yet to make it useful.

Not knocking Mac's, they make good systems and have many advantages, but a good price still isn't one of them.

57 posted on 12/29/2004 8:43:13 AM PST by kAcknor (That's my version of it anyway....)
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To: kAcknor

This reminds me of those "net only" computers that Ellison came up with. Since they were not complete systems, Oracle sold them at bargain prices -- finally giving them away to schools.


59 posted on 12/29/2004 8:51:14 AM PST by Zechariah11
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