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...deal tempted even cynical me. Free-PC is offering 333-MHz Compaq PCs with full Internet and e-mail access to anyone willing to fill out a questionnaire, watch ads onscreen and use the computer for 10 hrs. a month. No hidden fees, everything included--even speakers and a fancy Internet keyboard. But hold on: Who in her right mind would suffer through a barrage of onscreen ads just to get a free computer? Or submit to all sorts of prying personal questions, down to your income? Next thing you know, these "free" computers might be coming with built...
...been testing IBM's Aptiva E Series 585, which shipped to retail stores last week. At $1,899 (a monitor costs extra), the 500-MHz Pentium III desktop PC has the usual amenities, but comes with an internal Sony CD-RW drive. RW is industry jargon for rewriteable, which means it can handle discs that can be recorded over and over again, just like a floppy disc. CD-RW discs, however, tend to cost about $10 each and can be flaky, as I soon learned...
...excellent tool for Stein harassment, it can't compete with my daughters in the clearing-the-dinner-table department. Indeed, while Cye's offspring may grow up to be butlers and bartenders, today's robot is best used as an educational toy. You control it via your 133-MHz-or-faster PC. A small radio antenna plugs into the PC's communications port and, with the help of Cye's Map-N-Zap software, beams instructions to the robot. Before heading out on an excursion, Cye must be placed on a "home base," an electric pad that doubles...
Pentiums are the workhorse chips found in most PCs in the $1,000-to-$2,500 range. The fastest are Pentium IIIs that run at 500 MHz, perfect for 3-D games like the upcoming Quake III. Celerons are discount chips found in many sub-$1,000 PCs. They are cheaper and slower because they have less short-term cache memory. Xeons are Intel's fastest chips (with up to four times the cache of Pentiums) and are used only for corporate servers...
Even more ominous for the industry is the generation of information appliances touted as the next wave of microprocessor-loaded consumer goodies. What happens when you've got a Windows CE device running at 200 MHz in the palm of your hand and a cell phone with Internet access in your pocket? Not to mention Packard Bell NEC's planned microwave oven with a video-display terminal on the door so you can surf the Web while waiting for your burrito to thaw. E-mail? Web access? Game playing? Will anyone need a PC to perform what today seem like...