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To: Joey Smith who wrote (35055)	7/24/1998 4:09:00 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1584613

Joey, RE:"In fact, one could argue that PC prices might go up some depending on how much marketing Intel does on PII vs. Celeron. And, of course, this strategy is devastating for AMD for the obvious reasons." Sounds like Intel is bragging up the Celeron to me...that sure doesn't sound like PC prices are going to go up to me. Soon there will be 4 Celerons (266-300 Celeron and 300-333 Celeron II) on the market rather than the 2 we have now (266-300 Celeron). Sure the cacheless one will be dumbed down but that's twice the exposure in my book. I really don't see the Celeron II and price drops being that devistating to the K6-2...No Intel offering has 3Dnow...the pricing should migrate to the Celerons being rock bottom, the K6-2s having a niche market in the middle and the Pentium II being the high priced high end....with the K6-2s selling with the rational that they are as fast as the Mendocino on general apps and have 3dnow in case you want gaming power. Still, there are some apps that the Pentium II excels in like heavy graphics and working with .wav files etc. that there are no 3dnow drivers for at this time. But for general use I clearly see a migration away from the Pentium II. Jim