Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bill Jackson who wrote (29329)	3/2/1998 10:38:00 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572987

Bill, Think about it. Compaq and IBM sell K6-200 units for $799. IBM can't be serious about selling a MediaGx-180 for the same price. The price will suddenly drop... Benchmarks? Like you said, it depends on which Benchmark. I'm positive any Benchmark that has to do with Intel won't be favorable to the GX.

To: Bill Jackson who wrote (29329)	3/2/1998 11:12:00 PM
From: Joe NYC	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1572987

Bill, Compaq now sells Presario 2200 for $599. You would think that if it is old stock, it would run out. But they keep delivering more of them. The price will not drop that far as the only thing that can fall is the CPU and that will not fall by $200. The monitor. hard drive, floppy, memory, mother board, keyboard, mouse etc are as cheap as they can get. They will only cheapen that by $100-150 before they have to go to lesser memeory/ drive etc. Yes, they will have less memory, smaller drive, slower CD player, but guess what. These are entry level systems. Entry level systems are supposed to have less memory etc. This $599 PC is faster than anything you could buy 3 years ago. (meaning 99% of computer users were happy with a lot slower systems) How much has changed in 3 years? BTW, there is a company (Micro Center or something like that) that sells 166 MHz MediaGX computer for $499. Joe