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To: Dave B who wrote (48712)	8/2/2000 5:26:14 AM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

Hi Dave B; Re "Gateway's E series desktop computers come in three models: the E1400 (which uses the 810 chipset with up to 256M of PC100 SDRAM), the E3400 (which uses the 815 chipset with up to 512M of PC133 SDRAM) and the E4400 (which uses the 820 chipset with up to 1G of RDRAM)." I don't know where you got the link, it clearly is on their website, but is that promotion still operative? Here is a link to the E4400 page at Gateway, and it shows the RDRAM based machine as topping out at 512MB, not 1GB. Maybe they had a little technical problem with that promotion: 192MB (1 128MB and 1 64MB Module) RDRAM® PC600 expandable to 512MB gateway.com Or maybe that promotion was a misprint. Or maybe there is another E4400 somewhere. In any case, the RDRAM based machine has a base price $550 higher than the i815 machine, and $1250 higher than the i800 machine. Why shouldn't they have different expansion capabilities? The basic problem for RDRAM is that it hasn't broken into the mainstream PC market yet. Your link is an indication of this. RDRAM is stuck at the high end. SDRAM still has the mid and low end, and DDR will soon (i.e. by this time next year) take the high end from RDRAM. -- Carl