Word: pc
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...industry's gold Rush days are fading fast. Two years ago, anybody with an idea and a PC could create and sell his product. But a glut of titles is taking its toll on smaller firms...
...been another hot year for consumer electronics, one that saw Toshiba release an impressive desktop PC, Sony take a first crack at a personal computer and a swarm of companies come out with hand-held devices, including the first really usable palm-top computer from U.S. Robotics. The year also included the nearly incessant squeal of Internet hype--and a stock market that couldn't get enough of hot-concept technology issues. It was all enough to send droves of Americans out to buy...a game machine...
Dell has gained a loyal mail-order following by "custom building" just the PC you want: dial the 800 number, list off the parts and wait about a week. Dell's sleek power system blends top-quality components and good service at the company's basement prices. The standard issue P200, at $2,599, includes a 200-MHz Pentium processor, 32 MB of ram and a roomy hard drive (2.1 GB). Its multimedia package boasts a fast graphics card, a CD-ROM drive, a subwoofer and a bright, Trinitron 15-in. monitor. When you're not playing games...
Close on Sun's heels, Oracle this week is scheduled to introduce the first NC with the promised under-$500 price tag. "The PC is too expensive and too complex to ever be popular," Oracle's Ellison insists. "We need devices that are cheaper and easier to use." To that end, he is planning a whole family of Oracle NCs--all designed to draw effortlessly from Oracle's databases--including a bare-bones desktop NC for as little as $300, an NC executive phone and an NC set-top box that will plug into a standard TV, letting home viewers...
...emptive press conference last Monday, one day before Sun's unveiling, to announce their version of a $1,000 network computer--one that runs on Intel Pentium chips, supports Microsoft Windows and Windows NT, and includes a hard drive, just like a standard personal computer. "I call it a PC in a corset," scoffs Sun's McNealy. "They can pull the strings as tight as they want, but it's still a PC." McNealy claims that the Microsoft-Intel initiative was organized over the weekend just to take the wind out of Sun's sails, a charge Microsoft denies...