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...while for many of us MMX may only mean Muy Muy Xpensivo, non-MMX PCs will be falling into our budgets shortly...
...high-tech executive with a Ph.D. in physics, Brian Kushner had an unlikely inspiration. If used cars helped push America into the automotive age, perhaps used PCs could do the same for the information era. The result: Recompute, Kushner's year-old used-computer store, which just went national. The mail-order house, based in Austin, Texas, takes personal computers with 486 or Pentium processors and refurbishes and resells them. Most of the boxes are just short of state of the art but fine for everyday computing. And at $600 to $1,000, they've quickly become...
...cure cancer while I was off surfing the Net? Sure, this is a bright guy who's defining a niche, but how much press coverage does he deserve? I think I've already read several pieces on Gates in your magazine over the past few years. While I appreciate PCs as much as anyone, I'm no more interested in details about the geeks who develop them than I am in the people who perfect cellular phones. Bring us the technology, but drop the hero worship. KEVIN C. THORNTON Finksburg, Maryland...
...billion a year. But how exactly, Grove wonders, is Intel going to persuade people to drop another $3,000 each time a new, extra-ultra-powerful PC gets invented, instead of sticking with last year's merely ultra-powerful model? "You can't push 100 million-plus PCs into the marketplace," admits Ron Whittier, senior vice president of Intel's year-old Content Group. "There has to be some kind of pull...
...fact, as much as the Net is changing our ideas of God, it may be changing us even more. For many, signing on to the Internet is a transformative act. In their eyes the Web is more than just a global tapestry of PCs and fiber-optic cable. It is a vast cathedral of the mind, a place where ideas about God and religion can resonate, where faith can be shaped and defined by a collective spirit. Such a faith relies not on great external forces to change the world, but on what ordinary people, working as one, can create...