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To: Tony Viola who wrote (104909)	6/26/2000 6:45:00 PM
From: Cirruslvr	Respond to of 186894

Tony - RE: "Good time to use the old "Megahertz sells" slogan. Who cares about specints or specpfs for low end? Johnny and Katy will much prefer one of these cool colors to boring boxed AMD's! Bada Bing!" True. After all, when AMD didn't have problems making them, the K6-2 had a big piece of the retail market pie. But this may have happened because K6-2 had marketing advantages over Celeron (100MHz bus, 3DNow!) even though it was a slower processor. What marketing advantages does Intel have now? Intel brand name (that's a big one) and SSE. Duron has many marketing advantages over Duron, but it is a new name so people may be iffy about buying systems at first, whenever they reach the shelves... Speaking of names, "Celeron" still brings up a bad note with some people because the original Celery was a piece of crap, maybe the worst processor Intel ever released. I seem to recall that even Craig Barett doesn't even like the "Celeron" name.

To: Tony Viola who wrote (104909)	6/26/2000 7:01:00 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Respond to of 186894

RE:"Good time to use the old "Megahertz sells" slogan. Who cares about specints or specpfs for low end? Johnny and Katy will much prefer one of these cool colors to boring boxed AMD's! Bada Bing!" Megahertz Sells?...hey, don't forget the trademark...<G> OTOH...I suspect Celeron IIs, especially at 700, will be very "capacity restrained"....their prices on the opem market will likely remain artificially high...even to the point where the Coppermine 700 is the better deal... Just watch.... Jim Jim