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To: Kevin K. Spurway who wrote (32740)	5/18/1998 12:38:00 AM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 1571802

Kevin - Re: "That's about a 30% savings for equivalent performance. Sounds "much cheaper" to me." Here is the URL for Pricewatch that listed several vendors for a $253 Pentium II - 300 MHz. pricewatch.com The Pentium II will give 30% more performance on many applications that use the FPU - making that 30% extra CPU/MB cost negligible in the long run. Also, the 30% savings becomes negligible as you start factoring in software costs. Saving a few bucks on hardware is a distraction when total costs get factored in over a period of time. Paul