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To: Michael G. Potter who wrote (8835)	11/6/1998 1:09:00 PM
From: Ben Wu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 16960

I ordered the Fusion AGP/MX300 combo from ebworld, and i watched the general availability date for the Fusion slip from 10/21 to 10/30 to 11/5 and now 11/9. I might've expected this from Creative, but i don't know what's going on with diamond, but if they have a OEM deal, hey more power to us all =) -Ben

To: Michael G. Potter who wrote (8835)	11/6/1998 2:49:00 PM
From: Andrew Shih	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 16960

>>My guess is that every single AGP card is being sucked up by OEM's and system integrators. People who are upgrading (retail sales) represent the demand for PCI cards.<< I agree that this is probably the case, but why the poor forcasting from the card makers. While a lot of the retail crowd will be from Pentium MMX or AMD computers, there are also a LOT of PII users who are looking to upgrade from lesser (ATI, Nvidia, etc.) cards. Is there additional difficulty in producing AGP cards? It's still the same chipset and memory, just a different interface. -Andrew