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To: Richard Rutenberg who wrote (2158)	7/12/1996 3:09:00 PM
From: Nathan L.	of 186894

Richard- Here is a funny story that might explain somewhat why the average home user doesn't buy from AMD or Cyrix: I was at Circuit City last week looking at a notebook computer to purchase. There was a family there looking to buy a desktop computer. Their son was playing with a notebook computer that had a Cyrix chip inside it when the salesman approached them. I was looking at the same one at the time just out of curiousity (check out the competition.) I asked the salesman how much that computer costs and he gave me the price. Then the parents of the kid asked how much additional money it would cost to get the Intel Pentium chip for it. The salesman had to take at least 10 additional minutes to explain to them that it had an alternate CPU and didn't need any additional purchase to make it run. Talk about excellent marketing on Intel's part. I was shocked. Needless to say they ended up buying a 166MHz Pentium from NEC. I later joked with the salesman about how naive about computers those people were and he told me it wasn't the first time he was asked the same question about that computer.

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