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To: Scumbria who wrote (66285)	10/12/1998 4:29:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Scumbria - re: " I assume that 1) Intel is giving deep discounts to Gateway. 2) This system is targeted at people with extra cash or a lack of common sense." Intel is bringing their best technology to the masses. REJOICE ! CHEAP XEONS FOR all the HOMELESS and poor consumers ! Think of it ! AMD is hyping a non-shipping K7 that will "beat Intel's best Xeons", but Intel is driving Xeons into the mainstream TODAY. This may be a preemptive attack on the K7, to insure that AMD has to price it for Peanuts when it finally does become available. Paul

To: Scumbria who wrote (66285)	10/12/1998 4:41:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Scumbria, re: <I assume that 1) Intel is giving deep discounts to Gateway. 2) This system is targeted at people with extra cash or a lack of common sense.> This announcement puzzled me as well. We all know how big that Xeon module is, and how much of a power hog it must be. Then again, the original Covington Celeron (the one sans L2 cache) puzzled me, until I realized that Intel was establishing the Celeron platform, using Covington only as a stop-gap measure until Mendocino was available. Paul already hinted that Intel could be pre-empting the future lower-end K7 systems. But could this announcement be the beginning of a new plan by Intel to push the Xeon processors into the desktop? If so, then that would mean that the current 450 MHz Xeon is only being used as a stop-gap measure until a more suitable processor was available. Xeoleron, anyone? Tenchusatsu