New business PCs are smaller, simpler, easier to service.

Looks at several models of corporate personal-computers available in the United States market in the fall of 1999. Efforts by designers to rethink and rework the interiors of these kinds of computers; Lack of expansion room offered by the slim cases on the 1999 models; Dimensions of the Gateway E-1400 500; Pentium III 500-based models from Compaq Computer Corp. and Dell Computer Corp.