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To: Paul Engel who wrote (32287)	5/1/1998 2:47:00 AM
From: FJB	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1580593

To refresh your memory, here's the title of the article I just posted. I did not leave out the title cleverly. IBM Outsold Packard Bell NEC in March 207.240.177.145 Retail-PC sales auditor Intelect ASW Marketing Services reported today that IBM captured the third-largest share of retail PC sales in March, with a 222 percent increase in unit sales compared with March 1997. That sales gain helped propel the company ahead of Packard Bell NEC, formerly the retail-market leader, which fell into fourth place as a result of a 46 percent decline in retail unit volume compared with last year. ... The Intelect ASW findings corroborated PC Data's results, released last week, which also ranked IBM in third place and Packard Bell in fourth. The company's strong AMD K6-based E Series PC sales spurred IBM's advance to third place. Market leader Compaq Computer has also benefited from strong sales of non-Intel PCs. Compaq nearly doubled its sales rate in March 1998, with a 94 percent increase over March of last year.

To: Paul Engel who wrote (32287)	5/1/1998 1:34:00 PM
From: greg nus	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1580593

Paul, Correct but inaccurate. Yes your are corect Pentuim2 did outsell AMd in march, however the reason for the advance was Intel release of newer higher speed chips. OEM bought the Intel offering to introduce new modles and round out their productline offerings. Now that the new models are out there and they are all priced higher then the AMD system and the overall performance is negligible to slightly better but the puyers is hit with the price differential they are opting to buy the less expensive AMD based systems. Such preasure has been felt by HP who recently was under presure to drop system prices to get competitive. Now HP ahs determined that if they had AMD k-6 offerings they could be competive and profitable at the same time selling more volume and getting the occasional sale on the expensive end them those have to have Intel coustmers like you. You really need to get out more and check things out at some of the retailers. The fresh air will do you goood!