Are corporate customers really going for the legacy-free models?
The interesting thing is there are more legacy-free (models) sold than legacy lite, which floors me, too. The second is over 50 percent choose Windows 2000. A lot of people have said, “Well, the uptake of Windows 2000 hasn’t been aggressive in the corporate world as people thought.” On the iPaq, it’s amazing. Over half the units go out with it. By the way, that’s an exponential growth rate. We expect we’ll do a $1 billion run rate going out this year, just on those desk-side iPaqs. Compaq developed iPaq in just 100 days and said it would help reinvigorate commercial PC sales. Has that happened? That product and the iPaq handheld, which have been winning all these awards and selling like crazy, have put a new aura on Compaq. The Compaq of old, of innovation and such, is starting to be restored. And I think that halo has helped the sales of all our products, by the way. Your iPaq handheld is so popular people are auctioning it off on eBay. Yes, and paying $300 over (the retail price). Th
