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To: combjelly who wrote (152198)	12/12/2001 11:49:28 AM
From: wanna_bmw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Combjelly, Re: "If it wasn't price, then why was the decision made at the last moment?" What do you mean, "last moment"? Intel had the X-Box win for the past year at least. Any hint of an AMD based X-Box was a long time ago. wbmw

To: combjelly who wrote (152198)	12/12/2001 11:51:17 AM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Combjelly, <why was the decision made at the last moment?> What does "last moment" mean anyway? There were 18 months between this "last moment" and the launch of X-Box, so a lot of details were still up in the air. The nForce was still being designed, and there was no prototype X-Box to speak of. (Hastily-assembled Duron boxes don't count as prototypes.) Intel probably got wind of AMD's potential design win, put together a marketing task force, and presented Microsoft with a better proposal. What's wrong with that? Tenchusatsu