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Available in November for $199, the ScanJet 4670 isn't the cheapest scanner in its class. Canon, Epson and even HP sell models with the same 2,400-dots-per-inch resolution and 48-bit color for $150 or less. But its breakthrough design makes it worth the splurge...
...past eight months, a team of technicians was holed up in a windowless room at Dell, testing 650 products from nearly 90 manufacturers. Their goal: to ensure that products like Sony monitors and Veo cameras--even printers made by archrival Hewlett-Packard (HP)--worked smoothly with Dell's machines. It didn't take them long to realize that Dell could build some of those products better and sell them more cheaply. So last week founder Michael Dell, 38, put the consumer-electronics industry on notice--including some of the company's own suppliers--that the world's No. 1 computer...
...skeptics who constantly try to paint it as an unimaginative box mover. Three years ago, the company was No. 6 in computers, with a puny 6% share of the U.S. market. Today it leads, with nearly a 30% share. Enderle says Dell's consumer foray, more so than HP's or Gateway's, is a "bellwether" of changing markets. "When a market is about to explode, Dell moves in," he says. "If it's moving into flat-panel screens, then you can be pretty sure that a lot of them will be sold this year...
...room is part of what promises to be a free-for-all in the $100 billion U.S. consumer-electronics market. Computer makers like Dell are responding to slowing sales by leaping into new arenas, going head to head against consumer giants like Sony. In August, No. 2 computer maker HP launched 158 consumer products, most notably digital cameras to work with its market-leading printers. Gateway, which hit the jackpot last year with a $2,999 plasma TV, plans to introduce 50 more consumer products for the holiday season...
...transferred onto a single disc. The software breaks the DVD into chapters, allowing you to skip to your favorite scenes, and comes with an editing package that can set your 1987 high school graduation to Eminem's Slim Shady. The Movie Writer is one of 158 products HP launched this summer, and it's generating the most buzz. Notes technology analyst Rob Enderle: "Those videotapes don't age well...