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To: Dan3 who wrote (93665)2/16/2000 9:11:00 PM
From: Jim McMannis  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 1572445
 
Can anyone venture a guess why Compaq has stopped offering configurable Presario 1200 series notebooks with K6-2 chips?
Two days ago you could configure one on their website. Now I see more configurable Intel offerings. (Yeah Paul, I saw your post on the Intel thread.)
I called to order one today and the salesman said that they are having trouble getting K6-2s (notebook chips?) because AMD has stopped producing them.
The Salesman even went as far as mentioning that AMD is "working on" a mobile Athlon. Of course I challenged him on this.
Anyway, it's a concern.
Where is the K6-2+?
Is Intel lowering prices?

Jim



To: Dan3 who wrote (93665)2/17/2000 2:24:00 AM
From: dumbmoney  Respond to of 1572445
 
Why, between packaging, pins, and motherboard area, you could easily save $25 on the total cost of the system, maybe even a bit more.

So on a 512meg workstation, the overall cost savings from Rambus will amount to how much?

At current prices, even the PlaystationII is not saving any money by using Rambus. The difference is that the PII has a 5+ year life and by the end 32MB of memory won't use much silicon, so at least there's a chance of coming out ahead.


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