Re: does anybody have more info on upcoming ThinkPads?

[dewar@gnat.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)]

DOn't be silly! [how can they justify selling those things at the original
prices, since they are probably still making a profit at these extremely low
prices). 

That's not the way things work at all. When you have surplus junk, you sell
it off for whatever you can get for it, before the value drops to $0.
This generates revenue, but very often things are sold way below the
original cost. It is much better to sell something at a loss than not
sell it at all, providing you don't damage your current market by doing
so (in this case that's a pretty clear bet).

It always AMAZES me to realize that there are people who actually think
you can make a profit selling something like a port replicator for $9.

Reminds me of some guy who demanded to know what IBM was going to do with the
"big profits" they got from selling some beta release of OS/2 for some price
like $15 or somesuch.