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To: wanna_bmw who wrote (142732)	9/4/2001 8:13:26 PM
From: Win Smith	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

The P4 isn't slow, but it's fat. In the near term, anybody who'd pay $600 for the privilege of running a 2ghz P4, plus being saddled with soon to be obsolete Rambus memory, or else going with Intel's lame SDRAM 845, for a system that's a performance wash with a $105 1.4 ghz Athlon on a $60 mobo is not being economically rational. But economics in the conventional sense isn't what's at work here. If Intel were operating like a conventional company in a competitive marketplace, they'd be thrilled to have Via's DDR P4 chipset out there. That's not the way Intel operates, though. Of course, Intel is no doubt shoveling the 2ghz P4 into Mikey Dell's hands at a price somewhat below $600, maybe $300, maybe $200.