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To: richard surckla who wrote (46892)	7/10/2001 10:35:28 AM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 275872

"The real question is... "Why would anyone want to buy an Athlon when DELL P4's are selling for $799?"" A 1.3GHz P4 with PC600 memory? If you want Celeron performance, why not buy a Celeron? They are cheaper...

To: richard surckla who wrote (46892)	7/10/2001 1:16:00 PM
From: ajbrenner	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Re:The real question is... What is Intel's latest a greatest flagship chip doing in a $799.00 box (ouch). ajb

To: richard surckla who wrote (46892)	7/10/2001 2:32:55 PM
From: 5dave22	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

<The real question is... "Why would anyone want to buy an Athlon when DELL P4's are selling for $799?"> No monitor. No sound card. No speakers. No modem.

To: richard surckla who wrote (46892)	7/10/2001 6:35:12 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 275872

"Why would anyone want to buy an Athlon when DELL P4's are selling for $799?" 1 - Because most Athlons are faster then P4 1.3ghz chips. 2 - I went to configure the system and tried reducing the price as low as possible. With a Pentium 4 1.3, no monitor, PC600RDRAM, a 20 GB "value" (read slow) HD, a reduction in the warrantee to 1 year from 3, replaceing Win2000 with WinMe or Win98SE, a cheap video card, the least expensive CD option, no sound card, speakers, modem or NIC, and no option extras I was only able to get the price down to $908. My Duron system would be more useful, at least it has a monitor and a modem, a good sound card, and a NIC as well as a bigger and probably faster HD. Tim