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...business model working well in electronic form, with PCs replacing the box. Offers and suggestions pour in to this Internet freak show. "We are always working on ways of getting controversial material," says Warshavsky, who weeds out legitimate offers--relatively speaking, of course--from the cranks and seeks his next lucrative magic trick...
Like students, Faculty have had to makeadjustments following the policy change. Preceptorin Cellular and Molecular Biology Lauraine A.Dalton wrote in an e-mail message that spreadsheetprograms aid in efficient calculations in somebiology courses, and that the departmentrecommended Excel in the past because it wasaccessible from Macs and PCs...
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...
...date in six months. The average PC sold for $1,600 in 1997; it now sells for about $950. The fastest-growing segment of the industry is the sub-$600 market, where you'll find companies like eMachines and Microworkz. The subgroup currently accounts for 20% of PCs sold at retail, according to the market-research firm PC Data. Ultracheap prices have earned eMachines, in business for just six months, fourth place in retail desktop market share, less than a point behind...
...least for IBM it is. What an astonishing statement from the head of the company that created the PC industry! But last week Big Blue announced that it lost a billion dollars on PCs in 1998. Gerstner believes the future is in networks and servers, both IBM strongholds...