Ultimately, it is the goal of Iomega to make the price of the internal drive as low as possible for the consumer. In that respect, this extra mark-up by Dell was contrary to that aim and I am glad it has been eliminated. Neither should you. My thanks to Jerry Garner for his assistance. Micron has zip standard in 8 of 14 home pc's.
Iomega products are optional on all pcs sold.
There are now at least 20 companies that have zips as either standard or optional in their pc lines. See Kevinfurr's prior post, add Cisco and Actebis. This may give us an idea of the magnitude of each announced oem, and at least some idea of internal ZIPS for the quarter. The salesperson said that this date was a confirmed date. New figure 23,021,394 shares.