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To: milo_morai who wrote (35516)	4/11/2001 9:20:46 PM
From: eplace	Respond to of 275872

Milo, re: P4 Shipments Below Expectations in Q1 The slow economy is believed responsible. hmmmmmm. I think most on this thread think there is another reason for P4 falling short of expectations. Besides the P4 sucks that is. Regards Ed P.

To: milo_morai who wrote (35516)	4/11/2001 9:36:46 PM
From: porn_start878	Respond to of 275872

I guess it's no meaningful indications on P4 sales... more or less 60 000 isn't going to affect any of Intel's plans. If it's representative of Intel's own sales, however, it could justify the drastic move they are rumored to do. Max

To: milo_morai who wrote (35516)	4/12/2001 12:57:49 AM
From: ptanner	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Milo, Re: "DigiTimes also explains why Intel may not care if WindowsXP initially ships without USB 2.0 support. They're developing IEEE 1394 technology, as you can see right here." Thanks for link. I am a big supporter of IEEE 1394 (though I own no devices... yet) so appreciate the second half of the above sentence. The first half, however, doesn't make sense to me. One of the problems with Win95 was the incomplete USB implementation. And even today USB still seems to be "plug and pray" and my devices sometimes disappear/reappear or only like to be in one particular port. But, it is still a big step up from having to deal with adding additional ports and I like the hot-swappable. There have been reports which insinuated or declared that the lack of actual support of follow-through by Intel WRT IEEE 1394 had stalled its acceptance. It was nice to see that Via thought this was an interesting technology and planned to promote it... and some Athlon MB have included IEEE 1394. Compaq and Sony also have been big on including it as standard. From the article, however, it seems that Intel is more interested in the wireless variant of IEEE 1394. But if you don't mind a 100' cable ($20) running across half the rooms in the house who needs wireless? <g> Oh, I installed a broadband router/switch today (SMC Barricade 7004BR bought for $85 net from Outpost). It took about 15 minutes: 5 to find and connect cables; 5 to locate, download, and print the Quick Install .pdf since the printed version had two sets of half the pages; and 5 minutes since we didn't read the instructions the first time. And my Win2k machine sees the Win98 machine (for 3.5 year old) but the reverse requires a password. ;-) -PT