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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (75785)	10/18/1999 12:03:00 AM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572152

McManna?? - Re: "He looked at me like I was crazy" A good judge of character, he was !!! So, you spent the afternoon sniffing around Best Buy !!!! Sniff Sniff ! I'll bet the Check Out aisles were FULL of customers carting out about 200,000 of these AthWIPES ! You did SNIFF the check out counters didn't you ? Paul

To: Jim McMannis who wrote (75785)	10/18/1999 1:57:00 AM
From: Mani1	Respond to of 1572152

Jim Re <<a 128Meg PC100 DIMM (PNY) stick is now $369 plus tax. Will RAM prices crimp PC sales for Christmas?>> From the reports I have read, it hurts the lower end in favor of the high end. If the customer is paying $369 for DRAM he or she is more likely to pay the extra $150 and get an Athlon or PIII. With DRAM prices so high, why waist them on a low end CPU. Makes sense to me. I also remember reading a report last year which stated most customers were willing to pay more for their computers than what they had too. I think this holiday season will be another good one for retail computers. Mani

To: Jim McMannis who wrote (75785)	10/18/1999 6:00:00 AM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572152

Hi Jim McMannis; Re Athlons on display. The Totem Lake, Kirkland WA, CompUSA had a couple Compaqs on display. The guy who sold me a double fistful of computer games told me that his girlfriend's father had just bought one and that it was fast. I tried the -600MHz they had, and it sure was fast. I think I know why, though I can't explain the relatively low price... The Compaq Athlon machine apparently includes an Intel processor. This may be an extra expense, or there may be no AMD chip inside at all. That Athlon-600 was displayed at the end of one of the long aisles, in the premier position where CompUSA puts their baddest machine. The display included the spec sheet on the Athlon, but it also included technical information that I didn't know was included in the Compaq machine. The display behind the computer, in addition to the usual Compaq information, on the left side has a poster explaining how useful it is to purchase a computer with a real Intel processor. On the right side, there is a pile of documents explaining the various Intel processors, particularly the Celeron and the Pentium. I hadn't realized that AMD was stealing ideas from Intel. Or maybe the two companies have made an agreement allowing them to share the better shelf space. AMD gets the hardware, Intel gets the software (i.e. paper). Anyway, it was nice to see the staff drooling over them. -- Carl

To: Jim McMannis who wrote (75785)	10/18/1999 5:58:00 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572152

All. RE:" To: +Paul Engel (75779 ) From: +Jim McMannis Sunday, Oct 17 1999 9:22PM ET Reply # of 75916 On a side note...a 128Meg PC100 DIMM (PNY) stick is now $369 plus tax. Will RAM prices crimp PC sales for Christmas? Luckily I had a rain check when they were $149...and excercised it..."... How's that for a timely post. DELL just warned that high memory prices were going to hurt their 3rd quarter profits! Live by the DELL business model and die by the DELL business model, I say!