10% OFF DELL ORDERS

Special deal available only thru bruceb consulting, good July 22-26: take ten percent off all Dell Small Business orders. To take advantage of this promotion, Click here here to shop at Dell Small Business, and enter coupon code 2E61C54CE9FE when you’re checking...

THE NEXT STEP IN PERSONAL COMPUTING

Here’s an important one. My mind is buzzing trying to guess the implications of this. This comes from an e-mail newsletter put out by Windows & .NET magazine, summarizing an exclusive account in Newsweek. It’s your first look at ideas that will profoundly change...

NEW NOTEBOOKS

Today Dell is introducing a new notebook under a thousand dollars. The SmartStep 100N isn’t configurable, but its specs are darned good for $949 – 1.06GHz Intel Celeron processor, 128MB of RAM, a 20GB hard drive, a 14-inch display and a CD-ROM drive, along...

GATEWAY SALES PLUMMET

Gateway continues to fall apart. Steep drop in fourth-quarter sales, another 15% cut in work force, more store closures. The future looks very dim. Interestingly, EMachines is hanging in there. I thought they’d be bankrupt by this time. It’s no longer a...

MORE CHEAP COMPUTERS

I don’t know if I’d buy one of these, but it’s a good illustration of how goofy prices are in the computer world these days. Emachines has introduced new systems running Windows XP. The cheapest model includes a 900MHz Intel Celeron chip, 128MB of...

DELL SHIPPING WINDOWS XP

Dell is taking orders for Windows XP systems across the board now. If you’ve been waiting – go buy a new system, like I did tonight!