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To: Scumbria who wrote (95639)	2/28/2000 12:36:00 PM
From: kash johal	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573365

Scumbria, Re:"intel delays" Well intel marketing caught lying again!!! Way to go Elmer !!!! Remember yields are fine, ramp is great. And Intels shipping 1Ghz in volumes as we speak. Onward to higher stock prices. So Intel can dump some stock to make its quarter again!!! regards, Kash.

To: Scumbria who wrote (95639)	2/28/2000 12:50:00 PM
From: Elmer	Respond to of 1573365

Re: ""Intel postpones 866MHz, 833MHz CuMine launch" Bummer. EP

To: Scumbria who wrote (95639)	2/28/2000 1:29:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573365

So today wasn't the day of the 866 MHz Coppermine launch. So what? The only hint that today was the day was from "reliable sources" from the yellow-bellied YUK Register. And when they proved to be wrong, what does the YUK do? No, they don't admit the inaccuracy of their own "sources." Instead, they call it a "postponement" by Intel. How typical of the YUK. Pump 'n dump. Tenchusatsu

To: Scumbria who wrote (95639)	2/28/2000 1:30:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Respond to of 1573365

Scumbria, I liked the subhead on the Register home page for that one, an ironic echo of an old favorite Intel line. Intel postpones 866MHz, 833MHz CuMine launch (sub: How can we comment on an unannounced product?) The whole story was classic Register, that Mike Magee is one cheeky S.O.B. Of course, Intel just cut the 800 part 24%, I don't think they didn't use to cut prices with such abandon on parts in short supply, or the top of the range in general. One bloody price war coming up, I'd guess. Just in passing, though, I think there's a bit of a problem for AMD and Intel both in the current battle. This week, e-machine 466 and 500 Celerons are being advertised for approximately free after rebate. The $400 ISP rebate is sort of a crock, of course, but $500 for a 500 celery with a 10 g disk is pretty darn cheap, for something that's essentially as fast as anything that could be had a year ago. Gamers are one thing, but I wonder why the bread and butter business market would want to pay more for a computer. With a memory upgrade, and 128 meg shouldn't be more that a $100 upgrade in bulk, something like that should be a near disposable upgrade, that would run a web browser and Office just fine. And that's mostly what PCs in the corporate market do, or other stuff not any more demanding, apart from engineering workstations. Why doesn't business pick up on this? Why do they keep buying $2k+ machines, that are getting obsolete quicker than ever? Maintenance? Just keep a few spare machines around, anybody big's got to have enough software standardization and backup automation that that should be no big deal, compared to figuring out what's wrong with a specific machine. Another head-scratcher, that $500-$600 price point looks like about the cost of one (1) 128mbyte RIMM. I don't know, it all seems oddly uneconomic. Cheers, Dan.