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To: Mo Chips who wrote (171277)	9/27/2002 1:08:50 AM
From: BelowTheCrowd	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Agree completely. Elimination of competition won't make a whole lot of difference as to what people are willing to pay. Charge too much and they'll skip the purchase. Charge too little and you might sell more product at unnecessrily low margins. Find a price in the middle where volume x margin per unit is maximized. That spot is probably not much higher than where we are today. I've been arguing endlessly here that competition isn't the problem at the moment, and in my opinion isn't going to be anytime soon. The problem is the very flexible demand for new PCs, which won't change much until we have some sort of new applications that really demand new ones. Most business PCs in use today will run the common busness applications more than adequately, so replacements are limited. The fact that they're cheap hasn't mattered much. Unfortunately, most of the regular posters here have always been more interested in arguing about who has the better processor or which benchmark is more correct than in dealing with real business issues confronting Intel. (Hint: I often specify PCs for clients. I never pay attention to those benchmarks and rarely does anybody ask. Sometims server people get a bit more technical, but even though they are sometimes interested, they know that the processor usually isn't the bottleneck.) mg