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To: Reginald Middleton who wrote (18224)	3/26/1998 9:14:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

You're so full of baloney, Reggie. The "market" guides the box makers, what's that supposed to mean? Oh, I forgot, the "market" is what Microsoft and Intel decide it is. Like with little Michael Dell, who "knows" that "the market" demands that only IE be shipped with his machines. You think that a few months after the OEMs finally got up the courage to stand up to mighty Intel, and created a new market niche that's now 40% of the market, they're just going to jump back into the "proprietary lock" fold? Just because you say it's a good idea? The Celeriac's got problems. I'd say the biggest is that it's going to need a new motherboard with some kind of cache memory, which will have to cost more than a vanilla PII mobo. Oh, and I forgot that you know more about everything than everybody in the press. Finance, technology, the law, you name it. Just ask Reggie if you want to know the TRUTH. If Bill hasn't already told you, that is.

To: Reginald Middleton who wrote (18224)	3/26/1998 10:45:00 PM
From: nommedeguerre	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

Reggie, >The job of the press is to sell advertising space, not spread knowledge. What is it that you are selling on your web-page then? Does being King of the "New Media" also make you the Count of Crap when it comes to information? Spread away Reggie! Yes, the press serves their own needs first, that's for sure. What competing processors need to do is promote the idea that using a "Pentium" means they are using a lesser processor. Nobody wants a straight-6 when they know the neighbor has a V-8 in his toy. A lack of marketing is destroying the lead that better processors have in technology. Have to agree with you this time. Take it easy, Norm

To: Reginald Middleton who wrote (18224)	3/31/1998 11:42:00 AM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 24154

Report: Celeron chip behind rivals news.com Another off topic dead horse I can't stop beating. "PC World completed the first road tests of the processor which indicate that Intel's rivals are still ahead in both price and performance,'' PC World said in a statement. Bill Snyder, senior news editor at PC World, said that while the chip runs at its expected speed of 266 MHz, its performance running software applications is slower than the performance of rival chips developed by Advanced Micro Devices and National Semiconductor unit Cyrix. "The thing is pretty slow," Snyder said. "There is no doubt in my mind that...why it's slow is because of the lack of secondary cache. Take away the secondary cache and you get a big hit to performance." . . . "Nevertheless, PC vendors privately express little enthusiasm over the new chip's performance," PC World said. PC World wrote that Celeron fails to live up to its name, which comes from the Latin word "celer," meaning speed. But, everybody's going to build machines with this one, because the market demands it, right Reggie? The market guides the box makers construction of PC's. If the celeron is prived at 10% above the K6, or at parity, who do you think the market is going to choose. Pentium is a household word, K6 is a pair of alphanumeric symbols. As I have said before, the tech business is more than production and engineering. Yeah, people will pay more for an Intel-inside Celeriac machine with sucky performance, because that's what the market demands. A proprietary lock is a necessity in business, you know, so those box makers will just have to step in line. Intel and the proprietary lock will rule the sub-$1k computer, because... well, because Reggie says so. The press here is just off selling advertising again. Related story: Intel challenged in low-cost arena news.com Further, these companies will give computer vendors greater autonomy by making them less dependent on Intel. "PC makers do not want Intel to have the degree of control over their business that Intel has today," Slater added. Nah, Slater's obviously another technoweenie commie. PC makers want to be kicked around by Intel, they enjoy being kicked around by Microsoft so much they want to double their pleasure. Competition sucks in business, the proprietary lock rules. Cheers, Dan.