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To: Dan3 who wrote (109654)	5/7/2000 1:48:00 PM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575154

GATEWAY SELECT 1000 MODEL A QUICK DRAW, BUT EXPENSIVE chicagotribune.com ....and I was delighted--no, stunned--by how much better my Dragon Systems computer voice recognition software worked when I loaded it onto the Select 1000.... ...I also was extremely pleased at how the Select 1000 handled the resource-hogging software I use to create digital movies in the ultra-compressed MPEG-2 format... ...The super-fast chip is particularly dramatic in its ability to reduce the process of transforming movie files into the super-compressed MPEG formats to a matter of seconds when it can take several minutes to do this on lesser PCs....

To: Dan3 who wrote (109654)	5/7/2000 2:14:00 PM
From: Gopher Broke	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575154

Perhaps the increased number of Athlon advertisements recently is related to the upcoming TBird release? With the Dresden floodgates about to open, now is the time to crank up the volumes of 900-1000MHz processors and AMD needs to flush the channels of existing Athlons. Perhaps they are selling the soon-to-be obsolete inventory at a discount? There also seems to be higher availability on the gray market. I think that the "GHz effect" has not been fully realized yet. I predict that the volume of GHz Athlons sold will increase exponentially with decreasing price. Willy could be the spanner in the works, but any slip in the schedule and Intel are really in trouble. Why do I feel so confident? Any guesses what the excuse will be this time? "Timing problems" again?