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To: Dan3 who wrote (142153)	8/22/2001 2:13:13 PM
From: wanna_bmw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Dan, Re: "The theme is that with an installed base of low end graphics systems, game companies can't design games that benefit from high speed processors without cutting themselves off from most of their potential market. With the result that there is little point in anyone buying a high end processor." That catch-22 has been brought up many times before. There have been periods in the past when the market seemed saturated, no killer apps were on the horizon, and big time analysts were predicting that no one would need a faster processor. Why is this time any different than those? Is the world so certain that this time there won't be a reason to upgrade? EDIT: Dan, you may have seen this presentation before. intc.com On page 5, Intel shows various quotes in the past from people convinced that future processors would not be needed by the market. I found it amusing that the last quote was from Piper Jaffray analyst Ashok Kumar, especially since this presentation was shown to a conference at the USBancorp Piper Jaffray Investment Firm. :) wanna_bmw