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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: MileHigh who wrote (61839)	6/9/1999 12:18:00 PM
From: Skeeter Bug	Respond to of 132070

>>That is a good point, but why the big push from INTC then? << i don't know. i would guess that intc sees trouble ahead for the bread and butter business. in the past, they have always sped up a computer system to save the day. i think rmbs is an attempt to do the same. i believe that the economics of pcs have changed and i'm not sure intel sees it. going from a 386 to a 486 is a HUGE improvement. why? b/c 486s were so good? nope. they sucked, too. b/c 386s were so bad! well, i can't tell the difference between my laptop p166 and my desktop pii 300 w/ mmx 95% of the time - when i surf the net, even less. granted, in graphics intensive applications there is a significant difference - corel draw 8 for example (my pii 300 doesn't work all that well with draw). most folks don't use draw. most folks buying pcs now surf the net. i can only think of one difference between my p166 and my pii300 on the net - java loading time. b/c cheap pcs are so good and so powerful, small performance changes don't have the impact they had in the 386 to 486 days. especially more expensive ones. in money losing industries. with lots and lots of debt already. hence the large cash outlays from intel. why? the new market economics don't demand the product so intel is trying to subsidize it. subsidy usually isn't used to bring up a strong stand alone product.