![]() ![]() "They were looking for my guidance as to how they could take their expertise in high-volume, low-overhead production and make the best use of it in the U.S.," Dukker said. He met with officials of KDS and TriGem _ both companies he had worked with in the past. Before joining Emachines, he was senior vice president of merchandising for Computer City, and before that he held a similar post at CompUSA.Īfter CompUSA announced its acquisition of Computer City in June, KDS executives invited Dukker to meet with them in Seoul, figuring he might be in the market for a new job. + It is being run by Dukker, a computer retailing veteran and an expert on the consumer market. Both companies manufacture products for big U.S. It is owned by two well-established South Korean companies _ TriGem, a maker of PCs and motherboards, and Korean Data Systems, a leading maker of PC monitors. The systems will go on sale at Best Buy and Office Depot stores by mid-November.Īnalysts are taking Emachines seriously for a couple of reasons: "We are the first people in the market to produce a low-priced PC that isn't made up of last quarter's leftover components, or last year's mistakes," Dukker said.Įmachines already has orders for all 200,000 PCs it plans to produce by the end of the year, Dukker said. ![]() The computer is available without a monitor for $399. The $499 eTower 266 features a 266 MHz Cyrix processor, a 2.1 gigabyte hard drive, 32 megabytes of memory, a 56K modem, a CD-ROM drive and a 14-inch monitor. ![]()
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