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To: Road Walker who wrote (142359)	8/29/2001 12:34:35 PM
From: fingolfen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

They want to redefine the value/cost perception for the consumer. And they are going to abandon MHz as a system measurement in the meantime. Give them a $10 billion ad budget and five years and I wouldn't give them a 50/50 probability. Especially since they have spent 2 years convincing world + dog that the Athlon is great because of it's MHz (first to 1GHz... Higher MHz than any P3 on the planet, etc.).

To: Road Walker who wrote (142359)	8/29/2001 1:00:10 PM
From: Tony Viola	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

John, re: So you really think it could be a marketing disaster? Oh yeah. Well, you have the most career experience around here in sales/marketing, or all sales, not sure. So, we're holding your feet to the fire here, will watch to see when it bombs and AMD comes up with something else. :-) Tony

To: Road Walker who wrote (142359)	9/1/2001 12:33:35 AM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Re: if this marketing scheme got off the ground, the average consumer You guys are all so scared that once the question is asked people will find out that P4 is a fraud. Salesman: P4 Runs Quake demos faster than anything else on the market. Customer: I don't know what quake is, my kid is going to school and needs something to run Office and learn to program - he has to use a compiler, which machine is better for that? Salesman: Well, the Athlon may be a little better at some of those things... Customer: Which one costs more? And the cat is out of the bag. As long as Intel wants to sell their top of the line CPU to everyone - including corporate accounts - for $100, they're all set. Otherwise, they keep losing market share. Intel should have kept the PIII. They had a great deal going with large accounts paying top dollar for obsolete PIII processors, and meanwhile they were giving away P4's to slow down AMD in retail. Now Intel is walking away from its lucrative PIII business and can't sell expensive PIIIs to corporations while selling cheap P4s to consumers. It'll have to be cheap P4s for everybody.