Word: delle
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...vision-free ceos had left the company coasting on the fumes of its past innovation, with a convoluted welter of products and no idea who its customers were. "The roots of Apple were to build computers for people, not for corporations," Jobs says. "The world doesn't need another Dell or Compaq." He swiftly slashed back to four product lines--a laptop and desktop for consumers, and a laptop and desktop for professional users--ordered his design team to make Macs look hot again, and set about unclogging the foundering company's executive arteries by replacing, according to Apple board...
Compaq lent me a preproduction Presario that comes with the Athlon chip and all the dressings (128 megs of RAM, DVD drive and so on). It's certainly a match for the Dell Dimension XPS T500, which I wrote about in March on the heels of Intel's launch of the Pentium III. In fact, it's faster--at least, according to the specs and benchmark tests conducted by various know-it-all trade magazines. But what does that mean to me? To find out, I tried a few real-world tests. It took me 48 sec. to install Hoyle...
...small company in Woburn, Mass., called FairMarket is set to unveil an auction system that will coordinate listings and bids across a hundred online services, including those run by biggies like Microsoft, Dell, Lycos, Excite@Home and Earthlink. Microsoft, Excite@Home and Ticketmaster-City Search are getting a piece of FairMarket as part of their participation. MORE...
...test, and I was asked to complete the application form.) Another 20,000 will go out by year's end, but odds are you won't win one. My advice: if you can't wait for the next Free-PC lottery, buy a $1,000 system from Gateway or Dell instead. You'll get a 400-MHz system with monitor, a year of prepaid Net access and a one- to three-year warranty. Financing plans can cut the up-front cost to just $36 a month. It's not free, but it's likely to be headache-free...
...employee of US Power Solutions reported that between July 28 and August 2 a black male, described as tall and missing a lot of teeth, entered the building and removed a red backpack and a Dell Latitude laptop computer valued at $2972. It was discovered that a lock on a file cabinet drawer was jimmied, but nothing to be appeared missing...