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To: FJB who wrote (21810)	12/5/1997 7:08:00 PM
From: Joe NYC	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 33344

Bob, Compaq removed $13 worth of DRAM to make sure the 180MHz underperforms the 166MHz MMX box. I don't think Compaq will be under preassure to do anything like that in the future. According to several reports, majority of sub-$1,000 PCs will be non-Intel. I think Compaq makes more money on Presario 2200 than on Intel based Presarios. Not just % higher margin, but I think higher $ margin on a less expensive machine. (since I am beginning to see machines for $799 and $899 sporting Intel chips and at least $150 worth of components MediaGX replaces. Joe

To: FJB who wrote (21810)	12/5/1997 7:21:00 PM
From: Investor A	Respond to of 33344

It would be interesting to see the benchmark comparison among MediaGX-180, cacheless Pentium MMX-166 from HP and cacheless Pentium MMX-233 by PB. I suspect that the HP PMMX-166 might be the slowest system among all these sub-$1,000 PC in the market. I played with it in Best Buy and found it painfully slow. PB makes the world slowest system from the same processor year after year. Do you think if it is possible that Intel remarks their Pentium MMX-166 to 233Mhz version and sell them to PB at 200Mhz versio price? Fuchi ... who loves Cyrix's innovations Please support the PC industry & protect consumer interest techstocks.com