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To: ptanner who wrote (106395)	4/17/2000 10:33:00 PM
From: Cirruslvr	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573852

PT - RE: "This market is clearly less sensitive to MHz and more sensitive to $$$? Or is the comparable Intel offering a Celeron derivative rather than the higher MHz Coppermine Speedsteps?" Yeah, the notebook market is first price and then MHz sensitive. You can get a 500MHz K6-2 notebook and a 500MHz PIII notebook, but the PIII notebook will cost a lot more because it is better and faster. It is easy to differentiate a low-end notebook from a high-end one by looking at screen size. In notebooks, Celeron is just a dog. Probably because those notebooks cost more than K6-2 notebooks at the same MHz. "I hope the K6-2+ can continue to hold AMD's strong share of this market until the Athlon-based solution arrives." Even if/when AMD comes out with a notebook Spitfire, I expect AMD to still sell K6-2+ notebook chips. I expect this because these notebooks will probably create the sub-$1000 notebook market while Spitfire takes over where the K6-2 is now and mid-range. And also because the K6-2+ used by HP is only 475MHz, even though it is made on the .18 process.