computer prices
I saw an article that said that sam's club is selling a linux pc for $325.
The price of a decent desktop system with monitor, printer, and a real modem is about $600 retail. The main box itself (256 meg mem; 40 gig hd and a cd-rw is probably about $400 . Once a system can be bought for under $500 (usual price - not a special deal), we will see the pc really becomming an applicance (with the internet being viewed as a public utility). Then we will see open source software truly spread like wild-fire.
The price of a decent desktop system with monitor, printer, and a real modem is about $600 retail. The main box itself (256 meg mem; 40 gig hd and a cd-rw is probably about $400 . Once a system can be bought for under $500 (usual price - not a special deal), we will see the pc really becomming an applicance (with the internet being viewed as a public utility). Then we will see open source software truly spread like wild-fire.
posted by konstantine at 6:43 AM
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Hi Dennis,
What is your basis for asserting what the price point is for the internet to get to the "other half" of the US population? Couldn't it just as easily be $300 or even $200?
I am thinking about the market penetration of the television or the telephone which should be fairly good parallels. Those technologies had to be essentially maintenance free (sure can't say that about the PC in any of it versions yet!)and hit a certain price point (not sure what it needed to be really) in order to get into the last 10-20% of homes. - Kevin S.
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