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From: stevee@ism.isc.com (Steve Ellingson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Gateway 2000 lowers prices again
Keywords: GATEWAY  REDUCED prices
Message-ID: <1991Jun27.231918.15573@ism.isc.com>
Date: 27 Jun 91 23:19:18 GMT
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In article <1991Jun27.213202.9929@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> phil@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Phil Howard KA9WGN) writes:
>stevee@ism.isc.com (Steve Ellingson) writes:
>
>>>Just got off the Phone with SEAN of GW2k.  The new 386/33 price is
>>>$2795.  That is $400
>>>off the Price quoted in the April Computer Shopper!
>
>>Hmmm... I wonder if that means that they're making room at the
>>top of their price list for EISA machines?
>
>Maybe a 486/33 or a 386/40?
>-- 
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Gateway currently offers a 486/33, and its price has been dropping
as well.

If they don't get something into their product line-up at a higher
price point, their margins are going to grow increasingly thin...

				Steve


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