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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Buckwheat who wrote (111426)	5/18/2000
From: Bill Jackson	Respond to of 1575183

Buckwheat, Re-thinking it on a minimalist basisWell an integrated mobo with no CPU must cost $60 bucks with sound and Video ram. A power supply is on the order of eight and a CDROM drive is $30-32 plus a floppy at $13 plus a case at $7 =~ plus $10 for test and assembly and misc stuff. max Raw cost is then about $$130-5 If the power supply is built in it could cost $12 or so. So it is a doable situation for a low end system. So the dealers sells those cheap and then gets to load them up with RAM, CPU HDD, FDD etc., so it might grab some shares. It will be a good thing to use up old CPUs cheap from upgrades. Why do they play that rebate game? do they intend to fail to fulfil the rebate and thus make a fat margin?? Bill