Re: If you could design a $300 homecomputer today, what would youchoose?

[Bob Retelle <bobr1@provide.net>]

On Mon, 16 Jul 2001 19:03:20 +0000, SWE/YesCREW <jvalant@m42.cx>
wrote:

>On Sun, 15 Jul 2001, Beyonder wrote:
>
>> You people are insane.
>> for $300 you can get a high end pentium 3 system, loaded.
>> for $100 more you can get a high end 1.4gig system, loaded.
>> and these are retail prices! that doesn't include monitor, but who
>> cares?
>> 
>> get with the times.
>
>  Why buying a PC, topic say, "if u could design" not what would u buy..
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>							Janez
>

It's called "Market Research". 

It's part of the process of finding out if there is already something
on the market at the same or lower price point.

If someone is already making something like "The Wonder Widget" and
selling it for half what it would cost YOU to make your version of a
Wonder Widget, it wouldn't make any sense for you to try to sell one,
and it wouldn't make any sense for anyone to finance your business.

If Gigahertz computers still cost $3000, it might make sense to try to
come up with a $300 computer that would do a lot of the same things.

Unfortunately, as some of the messages here have pointed out,
Gigahertz computers now cost as little as $350, making a "New"
computer based around some arcane, non-compatible, possibly obsolete
CPU chip, with no software available, and a user-unfriendly operating
system an awfully "hard sell" in the marketplace.

Companies like Atari, Amiga, Sinclair, (fill in the name of any one of
dozens of others) and even Apple have found out the hard way that just
having a "superior" box won't do any good at all if no one buys it.

The question is, who will buy this new $300 box?


BobR