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To: Dan3 who wrote (91418)	10/31/1999 2:10:00 AM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

RE:"Nobody's going to be willing to pay rambus prices for most of what gets produced, bin splits will become yields, and prices will have to be raised." Someone told me a 128k stick of Rambus is going to cost $700 out of the chute. I thought they might be exaggerating. Anyone heard anything? JIm

To: Dan3 who wrote (91418)	10/31/1999 10:30:00 PM
From: steve harris	Respond to of 186894

Dan, re:DELLINTEL DELL hasn't sanitized their website completely yet of the 820/Rambust flop. dell.com Processor Speeds Pentium III — 533 MHz processor with 133–MHz Front Side Bus Pentium III — 600 MHz processor with 133–MHz Front Side Bus Memory RDRAM: PC700 ECC PC800 ECC On the IBM site, the PC600 is all they list like you said. On a similar note, too bad iNTEL is pushing a proprietary idea which is based more on their false sense of security and profit instead of based upon customer satisfaction and performance. Shoving Rambus down the OEM throats is not and will not work. A past example would be the old (86-286) Compaq systems where you had to buy "their" upgrades or repair parts. You couldn't even change to a bigger hard drive unless it was "theirs". Wasn't that the downfall of Apple? Proprietary instead of an open bus system? No accessories from anyone else but Apple. I'm not technical enough on the current iNTEL lawsuit against VIA, but if iNTEL wants to keep slot1 and PC133FSB then fine; everybody else will move on to something better. SlotA and DDR SDRAM? steve