June 11, 2002
SHIPPING METHOD TRIAL AND ERROR
Many of you already know we changed our default shipping method from UPS to Airborne Express a few months ago. This turned out to be a major disaster. I give Airborne an A for making promises and an F for implementation. They obviously have their niche or they wouldn’t be in business but most of our customers in Colorado and the surrounding states were used to getting their product in 1 day most of the time and 2 days the rest of the time. Airborne doesn’t have the manpower or the presence in remote areas to service our customers satisfactorily. We are switching back to UPS as our default shipper.
PENTIUM 4 533MHZ
We now have the P4 processors running at 533Mhz FSB. There are only 3 available 2.26, 2.4, and 2.53 Ghz. All of these processors have 512K cache. They will run on several motherboards. MSI has been the leader lately in high quality and high performance for new products. The boards just released for these processors are:
| 645EMAX | MS6547E/P4/S478/SIS645DX/FSB533/ATA133/AUDIO/MATX | 88.00 |
| 845EMXnew! | P4/845E MAX/INTEL845E/FSB533/AUDIO/USB2.0/ATX | 97.00 |
| 845EMX2new! | P4/845E MAX2-LR/INTEL845E/FSB533/RAID/ATA133/A&L/USB2.0 | 134.00 |
| 845GMXnew! | P4/845G MAX/INTEL845G/FSB533/AUDIO&VIDEO/USB2.0/ATX | 103.00 |
| 845GMXLnew! | P4/845G MAX-L/INTEL845G/FSB533/A&V/LAN/USB2.0/ATX | 109.00 |
INTERNAL USB &1394 HUB
Our initial trial of several new products yielded one item that was a keeper. It is an internal hub that mounts in either a 5.25” or 3.5” bay. It has both a USB and IEEE 1394 (Firewire) hub. It sells for $25.00. This product eliminates the need for cases with front USB plugs. It is more versatile and the installation is cleaner.
S&K