Overall that shouldn't be meaningfull, as sometime during the year they'd need to account for the rebates. However, I believe all these rebates are about painting the "top line"... "Sales" $1000 and "Promotions" $-200, looks better to those looking for "growth in the business" than Sales $800 [net]. "Top Line Revenue Growth/Stability" is highly prized... even when it's phony accounting tricks.
"Prescott, likely to launch at a 3.4-GHz clock speed, will double the P4's Level 2 cache and improve the hyperthreading technology. And, Prescott machines should more fully take advantage of the higher-bandwidth memory and 800-MHz bus that the 875P chip set enables, Krewell says." if you are a true power user and can wait another month to buy, that is what you really want. When comparing two similar systems, bigger cache is where its at.
exactly. good for us though. for 99.9% of traders what they are selling now is way more power than you'll ever need, at least for trading purposes.
Sure enough. Those incredible $800.00 deals on the Dimension 8300 in the last week of April were undboutedly because of the end of the quarter for Dell. I guess I am going to have to wait till the end of July for a new one!
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Sure is........... NEW YORK (Reuters) - Dell Computer Corp.(NasdaqELL - news) is likely to show at least 35 percent sales growth as well as a jump in earnings when it reports on its quarter Thursday, as it sold more personal computers than any competitor and broke into the printer market.
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