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To: Trey McAtee who started this subject	1/21/2002 1:45:17 PM
From: Doren	of 213176

Idle breakthrough speculation. I was thinking what I'd do if I was Steve right now with the G4/5 line and lack of progress on the G4/5 chips. One solution he must be thinking is multiprocessors along the whole line. It seems like it might now be more cost effective to put out a low end machine with duel cheapo processors than a low end machine pushing a single faster processor. Like they've done with the upper end. The desktop will run fast enough on a single at speeds over 800Mhz and the duels would kick in for processor intensive stuff. In additions you could run renders in the background. It sounds like the kind of revolutionary solution Steve loves to announce, and it would raise eyebrows in the industry and get a lot of attention. Anyone here know the cost implications in terms of the wholesale costs of duel boards and additional chips? What does a cheap G4 chip cost Apple? $75? How about the additional cost on the board $25? That'd mean they could maybe sell a low end dual for $1799 instead of $1699 or am I insane? I'd buy one for sure.

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