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...worry if you missed out on a cheap PC late last year. Considering the better deals this month, holiday shoppers may be the ones with regrets. Retailers sold mainly entry-level computers but now are overstocked with higher-powered systems. Radio Shack has a fully loaded 333-MHz Compaq Presario for $999, and Best Buy is offering a similar Packard Bell system at the same low price...
...long as you're stuck living in the present (and your kids watch too much TV anyway), the gift for 1998 might be a new PC, even two. This year's top models (like the Compaq Presario 5665, seen here) roar--and still seem to have last year's price tags attached. Just as intriguing at the other end of the spectrum, the $499 eTower has arrived. Forrester Research analyst Bruce Kasrel notes that while 43% of America's 100 million homes have at least one PC, only 12% have more than one. Though the maturing U.S. PC market grew...
...Compaq had 1996 revenues of $18.2 billion, more than triple its annual revenues just four years earlier. The industry's next wave of growth is being propelled by falling prices that put the cost of a machine closer to that of a household appliance. Houston-based Compaq introduced its Presario 2100 for $999 in February. Others have low-priced PCs too. Now the industry is bracing for a quantum leap in demand as people who previously couldn't afford a computer rush to buy one on the notion that one day a PC will be as indispensable...
winner Compaq Presario...
...playing computer games is among your supreme joys, the $3,148 Presario 8712 is for you. With 6 MB of memory to enhance video quality and an 8X CD-ROM drive, everything onscreen looks better. The JBL Pro Premium speakers and subwoofer deliver terrific sound for playing such included titles as Descent II, MechWarrior 2 and Yukon Trail. The 3.8-GB hard drive gives you enough room to load dozens of programs, and the Pentium-200 processor and 32 MB of ram offer enough power to run any game on the market...