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PC Era Far From Dead, Dell CEO Asserts at Las Vegas Tech Show.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, November, 2000 by Ahles, Andrea
Nov. 14--LAS VEGAS--For billionaire entrepreneur Michael Dell, the personal computer era is not over.
An increasing number of technology companies and industry analysts have warned of the impending death of the PC in the past few years, pointing out that consumers have more options -- Web pads, Palm Pilots, and cellphones, to name a few -- through which they can access the Internet.
But in his keynote speech Monday in Las Vegas at Comdex -- the information technology industry's annual major trade show -- Dell emphasized that PCs are vital in today's Internet world. He pointed out that 250 million PCs have been sold in the past year, even though information appliances, hand-held devices and other wireless instruments are touted as the future of the...
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