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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (71409)	9/8/1999 6:49:00 PM
From: Gary Ng	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574752

Jim, Re: Everyone here knew the transition to the Athlon would be a bumpy road, even Scumbria Yup, but no one mentioned that except Ten, PB as far as I recalled. Before that great annoucement (June), everyone on this thread was saying "June is coming". After that, everyone on this thread was saying "Aug. is coming" except Scumbria. It is now Sept and everyone is saying "it is the MB that hold up Athlon". >Now you know why I hold on to Intel. Everyone on SI long enough should know why you hold on to your INTC(long before). Gary

To: Jim McMannis who wrote (71409)	9/8/1999 7:30:00 PM
From: Yousef	Respond to of 1574752

Jim, Re: "I asked the manager and he said they were using it to figure out how many Athlons to order." Jim, Sounds like "laugh-a-longs" are already selling like "hot cakes". <ggg> Make It So, Yousef

To: Jim McMannis who wrote (71409)	9/8/1999 8:52:00 PM
From: Cirruslvr	Respond to of 1574752

Jim - RE: "It had a price tag of $1599 and was a DEMO." The funny/pitiful thing about the one I saw was that there was a K6-2 w/3DNow! sign above the Athlon system, and the Athlon system was running a K6-2 w/3DNow! demo! That's AMD marketing for you. Elmer - Let me guess: AMD couldn't make enough Athlons and even with the few ones they had, they couldn't get motherboards, so in reality the Athlon system was a K6-2 system in disguise. And the 3DNow! demo was just a SSE ripoff with the colors changed.

To: Jim McMannis who wrote (71409)	9/8/1999 8:59:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Respond to of 1574752

McJimbo - Re: "Oh by the way - you never mentioned if that IBM AthLATE system was FOR SALE - or just a DEMO.Which one, Jimbo ?"... No one asked. It had a price tag of $1599 and was a DEMO" Well, I ASKED ! And my suspicions WERE CONFIRMED ! An AthLATE DEMO ! I assume you ordered a couple - eh? Paul

To: Jim McMannis who wrote (71409)	9/8/1999 9:01:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Respond to of 1574752

McPanic = Re"I don't want to get into your usual nit-picking petty arguments. Everyone here knows that motherboards aren't quite up to production levels yet. Everyone here knew the transition to the Athlon would be a bumpy road, even Scumbria. Now you know why I hold on to Intel. " JA JA JA JA JA JA JA JA JA JA JA !!!! Paul

To: Jim McMannis who wrote (71409)	9/9/1999 12:18:00 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1574752

RE <<<No one asked. It had a price tag of $1599 and was a DEMO.>>> Let me make a clarification here. On Sunday I spoke to the manager at the Best Buy in Torrance, CA, a suburb of Los Angeles. He informed me that pcs equipped with the Athlon WOULD BE IN STOCK TO BUY (NOT DEMO) ON SEPT 9TH. I will call that store again tomorrow and reconfirm this info. Probably this post is inappropriate but I am annoyed that after reading thru this thread just now, it is perceived at least on this thread that the only visible pc with an Athlon inside is a demo. That's after I spent an hour confirming the opposite on Sunday. Now it may be that the allocation system is different for each store. I will ask that when I reconfim the Athlon availability tomorrow. ted