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To: Joey Smith who wrote (6264)	8/23/2000 12:13:53 PM
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Well I too was in Microcenter this weekend... I saw it a bit different. In the "Name Brand" Section there were Compaqs and HP's each arrayed by MHz starting with Celerons at about 533 MHz, PIII at 600 and 733, then Athlons (classic 512K cache) at 800, 900 and 1000 MHz. Total of six or seven machines for each HP and Compaq, with the top three each being Athlons. These machines are definitely arrayed by speed and I think it is notable that the top three slots from both CPQ and HP are Athlons. Microcenter usually is a good indicator of what's available... They have not had anything over 733 from Intel whether in House Brand or Name brand until recently, with the addition of 800 and 933 MHz PIII's in the PowerSpec Brand. While the AMD machines have been available at all speed grades about two weeks after each chip was announced, and they continue to sell in decent number... (I have in the past gone in there on a daily basis and been able to count the boxes they sell... 'cause they have em stacked up in plain sight). IMHO they're pushing the Athlon more than their House Brand. The situation is not much different at CompUSA and Best Buy (The other two places in Cambridge). In the back by Mobiles yes there was only one K6-2 laptop (a Toshiba I think) the rest were PIII's at up to 700 MHz(?). In the House brand section there were 4 "PowerSpec" boxes going up to 933 MHz (all Intel) and four Emachines, two were Celerons followed by a PIII at and the fastest Emachine, The eMonster, was a 700 MHZ Athlon Classic. The thing I notice regularly is that lots of PowersSpecs are returned cause they're given a yellow price tag and stacked in front of the eMachines. I go there about one every other week for DD. IMHO Athlon COMPLETELY dominates in the retail high end(>733 MHz), Celeron Has the low end (<=600 MHz), the PIII is getting sqeezed in the middle, and K6-2's have almost disappeared from the mobiles. 'zyme