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To: SilentZ who wrote (228763)	4/11/2005 11:17:39 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573095

BS... for instance, Intel was able to price its chips so high for so long because its marketing was so good. If a company can pull the wool over the eyes of its customers effectively enough, it can charge what it wants. You're actually comparing Intel with the global oil market? LOL. You are far more clueless than I've given you credit for.

To: SilentZ who wrote (228763)	4/12/2005 3:14:36 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Respond to of 1573095

Z, If a company can pull the wool over the eyes of its customers effectively enough, it can charge what it wants. a) Intel isn't a monopoly. b) Even a monopoly isn't immune to the law of supply and demand. Tenchusatsu

To: SilentZ who wrote (228763)	4/13/2005 12:13:05 AM
From: TimF	Respond to of 1573095

Intel does not sell a simple commodity. Different Intel chips are different. AMD can sell you compatible chips but not the same chip. If you have a design for an Intel chip you can't normally just remove it and drop in an AMD chip you would have to sell a different system. There are grades of crude, how "light sweet crude" "heavy crude" and so forth, but if you have to different examples of the same grade no one is going to pay more for that grade from one country than another and if you swapped them no one could tell the difference, except perhaps through some form of detailed forensic analysis. Tim