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From CNET News.com:
It was something to behold while it lasted. But as happens with nearly everything in life, the fad that was PC mail order has just about run its course.
Oh, you can still buy a computer direct--either by making a 1-800 telephone call or by logging onto a corporate Web site. But that's a world away from what I'm talking about.
It wasn't long ago that you could choose among scores of PC mail-order outfits making first-rate machines every bit as good as those offered by the IBMs and Compaqs of the world. And then there was Dell Computer and Gateway, two direct resellers in a class by themselves. Publicly traded companies with billions of dollars in annual sales--and billionaire CEOs to boot--they were lauded in countless business-magazine cover pieces extolling the latest turn in old-fashioned American entrepreneurship.
Say goodbye to all that.
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