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Falcon Northwest On Asus
Jeff Tom, Editor-in-Chief
Tuesday, November 9, 1999 2:44 p.m. CST
The following is an e-mail we received from Kelt Reeves of Falcon Northwest, known for their PC's made specifically for gaming. This discusses the recent topic that has garnered much news coverage lately from AMD Zone (check the latest news and archives for more info), a certain CPU manufacturer using their monopoly over the PC industry to bully Taiwanese motherboard manufacturers into not shipping their Slot A motherboards, and therefore hurting the selection and availability of these motherboards, which of course the Athlon requires to operate. Also as of late, yesterday Asus finally put up a page with the Asus K7M on their website, only to take that webpage down. However, they have not removed it from their German site (thanks Uwe for the link) and I've also taken a screen shot of it for further proof which I'll upload later if this page is also removed. You can discuss this in our message boards. Please also sign the Athlon motherboard petition so we can finally see this motherboard from Asus and from other manufacturers. Here is the e-mail we were sent.
Friends,
We finally received a precious few K7M rev. 1.04 no-audio boards in from distribution yesterday. This is the product we've been waiting for, and planned on making standard equipment. Some of you even have our review systems featuring an early rev of this board. ASUS has long been running scared from Intel, and this product has been delayed because of it. Now it looks like as a small VAR we may not even be able to sell it. The rumors up on AMD Zone spurred me to ask ASUS point blank. Follow this thread backwards and you'll see that they are mostly true. I hate to burn bridges with them but they have been extremely unhelpful lately and I'm sick of the poor support. I know several of you reviewers have already been provided with this board directly from ASUS for end-user reviews. That kind of bait and switch ticks me off. Feel free to publish whatever of this you feel comfortable with.
Sincerely,
Kelt Reeves
Falcon Northwest
-----Original Message-----
From: DON SHIEH
Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 1999 12:07 PM
To: Kelt Reeves
Subject: RE: K7M review status?
Don't know yet.
-----Original Message-----
From: Kelt Reeves
Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 1999 11:58 AM
To: 'DON SHIEH'
Subject: RE: K7M review status?
So are you still going to ship to distribution?
-----Original Message-----
From: DON SHIEH
Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 1999 11:51 AM
To: Kelt Reeves
Subject: RE: K7M review status?
Kelt,
We are shipping K7M to system integrators only at this point. We will continue shipping this product. You may advertise your system but not the motherbaord, since it is not available in the retail channel. We do not
intend to support endusers for this product at this point.
best regards
-----Original Message-----
From: Kelt Reeves
Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 1999 11:15 AM
To: Don Shieh (E-mail)
Subject: K7M review status?
Don,
We have sent the K7M with a couple of our review machines. We just won an
Editor's Choice award with it in the December issue of PC Gamer. We are
finally starting to get in a few K7Ms from distribution . Now rumors
are flying on www.amdzone.com that the K7M has been cancelled, and indeed
the K7M page has been removed from the ASUS website.
We are planning on sending out more review systems next week for February
issue reviews. Should we be advertising the K7M or not?
Thanks,
Kelt Reeves
Falcon Northwest
1500 East Main
Ashland, OR 97520 |
