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To: StockMan who wrote (35690)	8/9/1998 12:15:00 AM
From: Ali Chen	Respond to of 1577147

Stopman, <..who refuse to see the facts and have their own theories..> I do not do theories, I do observations. The most recent one to share with you: Just back from Best Buy (when shopping for some cables): two ladies bought computer packages - PC, monitor, printer. One computer was a HP 6330 model - K6-2-300, etc, etc, the other one was an IBM Aptiva E3N - again K6-2-300. Near the counter another guy was rolling two carts with E3Ns. Yet another lady-student was trying to make a choice between HP P-II-333 and HP K6-2-300. She said she does not play super-new 3D games, mostly word processing and spreadsheets. A salesperson said there is no significant differences in performance while the price tag difference was $400. I am sure this factor will score well... Another observation, from Circuit City, just across the street: All the front shelves are stuffed with IBM Aptivas (K6 again) and several models from NEC and PB, marked as MII-300 (I guess it is NSM/Cyrix since there were no "Intel inside" crap on PC cases). Celeron models are sitting in between, for buyers deception, I guess. The top of the crop (or crap?:) with genuine P-II is lonely sitting inside the demo area. Funny to mention, the two K6 Aptiva models are shaded by a full-size cardboard-made bunny-suit man, with the P-II brick in hands. Forgot to mention: there were no buyers for P-II machines, zero. Now do YOUR theories, StuporMan.