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To: brushwud who wrote (3454)	11/5/1997 6:35:00 PM
From: vincent bilotta	Respond to of 14451

brushwud wrote: In the past, they've used the upgrade tactic: buy now, then upgrade. i think customers are a little smarter now. i am certainly waiting til the R12K ships, quite a few others i know are sitting on it until the new configuration ships. in the past you could take the offered discount, or they would throw in the processor upgrade in lieu of a discount. depending on what you could negotiate, the processor upgrade could be quite expensive. i would like to negotiate a fixed upgrade price on the IR graphics for Octane thats comming, but that's maybe too far off for my needs. i still think it'll put off a number of sales til Q3. vincent