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To: Don Green who wrote (42071)	5/11/2000 10:24:00 PM
From: Jdaasoc	Respond to of 93625

Don: Intel has never stated their intention to hand out free RDRAM to their channel parters. The CA810e mobo is already here and 815 chipset motherboards wil be here in 4 weeks as logical replacement motherboards. In addition, Intel didn't sell 1 computer system to the affected end users. Resellers and OEMS make up 100% of the parties that Intel will be dealing with. So it is up to hundreds if not thousands of companies to make right by their customers. I don't think that any reseller is going to had out several hundered dollars of RDRAM to end user for free. If customer does decide to switch motherboards; they will be without their systems for several weeks. Most people wait up to week for standard warrantee service as it stands now. I don't think that many people will return their systems to a depot or wait around at home for service technican to visit unless it is failing badly. Only a small percentage of systems actually fail based on my actual real world experience with 820 chipset computers with SDRAM. It is only RDRAM basher Bert McComas who suggests that Intel will pony up money for RDRAM. john