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To: Senator949 who wrote (38353)	5/4/2001 4:15:10 PM
From: Petz	Respond to of 275872

re: "AMD box $368 to $468 cheaper than Intel box" Here's a similar comparison from PC Club's ad in today's ComputorEdge. For the past month, their low end system was Duron, middle was PIII and High End was Athlon. There were no P4's. This week they dropped the PIII systems and replaced them with very chintzy P4 systems still positioned as the mid-range system PC Club P4 system: 128M RDRAM (unknown speed), 30GB, 16M TNT Vanta video, 52X CDROM 1.3 GHz $999, 1.5 GHz $1,139, 1.7 GHz $1,199 The Athlon systems are much better equipped: 128M PC133 (add $49 for 256M), 40GB, 32M GeForce2 MX200, 12X Liteon DVd, 12X Liteon CDRW 1 GHz $969, 1.1 GHz $979, 1.33 GHz (nobrainer) $1,019 To upgrade to DVD and CDRW on the P4 systems would raise the price by $218 and it would still have the crappy hard disk and TNT Vanta video. Even so, this 1.3 GHz P4 would be $200 more expensive than a 1.33 GHz Athlon with good video. I'll try to visit PC Club (they have dozens of locations in California) to see if they actually have any 1.7 ghz systems. I think having a CDRW and DVD is much more important to consumers than higher MHz, so, if the white box makers keep offering their P4 systems poorly equipped, AMD will continue to gain market share in this segment of retail. Petz