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To: Yousef who wrote (27497)	1/1/1998 4:33:00 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1570915

Yousef, Cybermax is advertising K6-266's in the jan C-Shopper. They must be coming fairly soon. Is the K6-266, .25u? I also find it most disturbing that Compaq has dropped an Intel based computer to the bottom end. Even though it's Intel, a 166mmx can't compete against a 220Mhz MediaGXm (MMX) system(32 meg SDRAM, 2.1 gig) ($799) for a hundred more. Compaq is putting the squeeze on Intel. On the other hand, CTX's Pentium II-233 system (32 meg, 4.3 gig) was the big seller at best buy this week. $1599 w/17" monitor. Monitor alone sells for $399 so the PII-233 alone is in the $1200-$1299 zone. Considering the extra cost of the chip and the MB, it seems Pentium II-233's will be be about $150-$200 more than K6-233 or Cyrix 6x86MX-233 systems at this time. Important thing at this time for Intel is that they stay at least two speed grades ahead of AMD...then the lower speed Pentium II's can siphon off sales from the higher speed K-6s and the gravy will go to Intel with the higher speed chips. Perhaps though, because of the shift to the lower cost PC's there will be less gravy for Intel. Jim