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To: thom who wrote (4632)	11/7/1997 12:45:00 AM
From: Rob S.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 11555

Sorry to ignore your post. I agree that the C6 looks like the ideal part for use in laptops. Many manufacturers are having a very difficult time tyring to use anything faster than the Pentium 166 in their laptop designs due to the case warping power requirements. Reviews in the most popular PC magazines have also shown perfromance using the Pentium 233 MMX as actually being less than the Pandemonium 200 because of bus I/O and the need to throttle it down. Then there is the fact that Intel likes to charge a large premium for the luxury of OEM cutomers being able to run down their batteries quickly in Pentium equipped laptops. The potential is there, most certainly. This thread is trying to stay objective about claims like "the C6 will rule the laptop market" or "intel will be driven into the compost heap of the electronics world". It takes a lot more than a good product to win new customers, develop proven quantity production and otherwise execute to achieve the potential. Thanks for your enthusiasm but don't take it wrong if someone else chimes in with a "reality check" from time to time.