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[neye_eve]

I_banker, thank you

then the statement says that sales of pc's would follow a normal distribution (which happens to look like a bell).

if this indeed was the intended meaning of the claim, then I'd personally believe in a distribution skewed to the left (more cheap than average, leading to a low mode, slightly higher median, and a slightly-higher-than-median mean.

In short, I agree with sgold's distribution hypothesis. But, I have no data whatsoever to back up my guess.

I guess a variant theory would be a bimodal distribution in which you have one "lump" where budget buyers and businesses find their own normal-ish distribution near the left, and another "lump" to the right where the gamers, once-every-four-years-buy-a-good-machine-for-the-long-haul buyers, and mac users would have their own normal-ish distribution.

neye