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To: Paul Engel who wrote (34760)	7/18/1998 5:38:00 PM
From: ROBERT MONTGOMERY	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572894

Thinking about buying a AMD 3Dnow chip based computer, is this a good purchase or should I go with a cyrix or pentium II chip? Any advise, thanks. Robert

To: Paul Engel who wrote (34760)	7/18/1998 5:41:00 PM
From: Kevin K. Spurway	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572894

Face it--Intel is lowering prices on cacheless Celorons because: 1) Nobody wants to buy these chips when they can buy a faster, cheaper K6 for less money. 2) Intel is introducing the 128k Celeron soon (a chip Intel hopes will be a proper competitor for AMD), so demand for the brain dead version of the Celeron will drop even farther. Intel is cutting prices now to reduce their inventories in anticipation of this development. 3) Intel has to do SOMETHING with all those chips that aren't fast enough to run at 300 MHz or more. Selling them below marginal cost is better than just throwing them away (AMD knows all about this). Kevin