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To: Zeuspaul who wrote (1260)	6/10/1998 11:04:00 AM
From: Dave Hanson	Respond to of 14778

Actual prices and Intel projected prices can differ substantially. In recent weeks, for instance, there's been a surplus of both AMD and Intel chips available, driving the actual street prices (see pricewatch and elsewhere) well below what the scheduled prices will be. For this reason, I think price forecasts are better at forecasting future pricing directions than current pricing values. More generally, volitity for silicon recently has been even greater than usual. I noticed through occasional spot checks in the past two weeks that prices on these CPUs and especially SDRAM changed as much as a few % per day. The maxtors have already come down 8% in the 2 weeks since I bought them, and can now be had for $299. SDRAM, even PC100 SDRAM, can be had for about $1 a meg. Amazing. It will take many months for the computer world to adjust to this. Just 3 years ago, RAM was about $20 a meg.