Monday, June 13, 2005

WSJ.com - Portals: Prices of Tech Items Seem to Keep Falling -- With a Few Exceptions

WSJ.com - Portals: Prices of Tech Items Seem to Keep Falling -- With a Few Exceptions: "How low can they go? Over the past few weeks, personal computers reached a significant milestone: The price for an entry-level but fully loaded system fell below $300.
Dell -- which wasn't even the first PC maker to take the step -- last week was offering for $299 a Windows computer that had most of what a beginning user would want. That list includes a 17-inch monitor, a 2.4 gigahertz Celeron processor, 256 megabytes of RAM and a 40-gigabyte hard drive.
A nearly identical system a year ago cost $499, and while it had only half as much RAM, it did provide speakers. The newer, cheaper model doesn't have any, but you can add a pair for $20."

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