Anything that stands to get . . .
. . those damned Presarios off the market is fine with me. I hate those things.
It looks like the Lexmark contract is going to toss a wrench in the works. Carly's going to have to make some serious concessions somewhere to get by that one.
Compaq's famous "channel distribution" was going south anyway, Capellas had successfully alienated just about everybody. Of course HP hasn't done a lot better recently.
I see continuing growth in market share for "white box" computers. "White box" has recently started seriously eating into server share as well as it's traditional desktops. About 40% of resellers report "white box" as their best selling desktop brand and about 25% for servers.
Reseller trade rag CRN declared "white box" dead a couple years ago when Compaq, HP and IBM dropped their prices to below what small builders could meet, but after a dip they came back - the advantages are just too overwhelming.
My "white box" machines are definitely more expensive (for quality and performance reasons) than what you can get at Frys or Best Buy, and I tell the customers that, but my sales are up. Too many people have had bad experiences with "major brands".
