On Friday 05 August 2005 09:20, Vickram Crishna wrote:
I haven't seen the actual specs, only the general PR stuff published on this and other lists. An HCL guy (let me refer to him as a ;-) reliable source) told me prelaunch that the product takes advantage of the massive economies of scale in purchasing that HCL achieves. Specific to our conversation, they have an 14" LCD screen bought at unbelievably competitive prices because the flavour of the month is 15" screens.
HCL's scales would be miniscule compared to Gateway, Dell, Acer, Dlink. And we haven't even started with the Chn companies yet. Searching the web does not show up an equiv sub $200 product. OTOH it should be useful strategy to grab market share as a loss leader while spending some of the cash they are sitting on.
rgds jtd