Word: compuadd
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Dates: during 1993-1993
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...this year the price war has claimed as many as two dozen firms, including CompuAdd Computer, a big mail-order firm based in Austin, Texas, that filed for bankruptcy in June, and Everex Systems Inc., a PC manufacturer located in Fremont, California. It has also left many others gravely wounded. Dell Computer is expected to report losses of $68 million this week, its first quarterly deficit ever. Ironically, Dell, which built a $2 billion-a-year business by selling cheap, reliable computers by mail, is being done in by copycat mail-order firms offering bigger discounts...
Some computers, including the CompuAdd Express 325NXL, are amazingly good at implementing helpful power management, although the worry that your computer may run out of juice in the mddle of a lecture always looms over your notebook computing life. One solution: Get a notebook that uses nickel hydride (niH) batteries, which on the average have 50% longerl ife han the more common and less expensive nickel cadmium (niCad) ones...
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