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To: Charles R who wrote (76655)	10/24/1999 12:57:00 AM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572910

If there are Cumine 733s on pricewatch next week I'll bet they have something like "available 11/XX or 12/xx" after the asterisk.

To: Charles R who wrote (76655)	10/24/1999 7:01:00 AM
From: Bill Jackson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572910

Charles, At Christmas is the best time to have the fastest as there are many gift buyers(for others and themselves) who want to buy the best=fastest, as a consequence I think for sales reason the best time is the next two months for Athlon/intel to engage in a speed bin contest for the crown. During the rest of the year there not as many newbie buyers. A possible exception is the college start season, but in my experience the colleges mention a minimum speed etc they suggest and many buy that or better as well as the fastest etc. Bill

To: Charles R who wrote (76655)	10/24/1999 7:04:00 PM
From: Goutam	Respond to of 1572910

Chuck, re:<and personally I am with rest of the longs in wanting to AMD to have the crown.> Thanks for the reply. I also would like to see AMD to have the speed crown. Here is a list of prices that I compiled today, based on the information from different online sources: PIII Athlon Oct 23, 1999 ========== ========== Rumored PIII old new new old to be on 10/24 450 $169 $168 --- --- --------------- 500 $230 $215 $198 $219 $205 533B $389 $321 ---- ---- ---- [ old -> prices during 550 $375 $339 $271 $320 $268 the first week 600 $583 $459 $414 $485 $407 of Oct'99 ] 600B $645 $479 ---- ---- ---- 650 ---- ---- $520 $679 $509 700 ---- ---- $692 $8?? $664 333 350 366 400 433 450 466 475 500 ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Celeron(ppga) $43 $38 $47 $59 --- $84 --- $124 K6-2 $29 $29 $108 $37 --- $49 --- $70 $102 K6-3 --- --- --- $73 --- $133 --- --- ---- MII $20 --- $34 $39* $53 --- --- --- ---- * Including Fan, and Heat Sink Coppermine - expected pricing as per the Register 733EB 700E 667EB 650E $810 $785 $630 $610 AMD badly needs higher speed grades of K6-3 to compete against PIII-Katmai as AMD moves into higher speed grades of Athlon to compete against PIII-Coppermine. Also, I noticed three weeks in a row, more Compaq systems being advertised in the advertisement flyers in our local news papaer (San Jose Mercury) with 60% - 40% mix of AMD - Intel. However, I noticed this week that there was an increase of ads from HP - mostly Celeron systems. Regards, Goutama