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To: ajbrenner who wrote (43474)	12/15/1998 7:17:00 PM
From: Aaron Cooperband	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573433

ajbrenner - RE: I thought most people went to stores like Costco for toilet paper and the such." In my posting I only listed the bottom end systems for sale. Costco also had two higher end systems - one from IBM and one from Compaq, both using INTC CPUs, and costing up to $2000. I've seen cars for sale there as well as 30' motor cruisers - they actually have these on display! I happened to buy a Xerox laser printer/copier on this trip. Yes, Costco does sell household necessities very cheaply, but they also sell other more expensive goods as well. As I understand it they will sell any product that they can purchase at a significant discount so that they can offer a better price than other stores on that particular item. Aaron

To: ajbrenner who wrote (43474)	12/15/1998 7:21:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Respond to of 1573433

<That sounds about right for people who would by a computer at Costco. They get duped into buying a box with a catchless Celeron in it that can't even get shelf space in a computer store.> The way marketeers see it, these people don't give a hoot about which processor is in the system, as long as it can run Office 97 and AOL reliably. Price is their #1 concern, and up until now, the lowest-priced boxes had AMD or Cyrix inside. This is the first time I've seen an Intel box at the bottom of the price list. This could be a foreshadowing of things to come. AMD, realizing that they need to make more than just a penny a share in profits, will start ceding the low-end to Intel's Celeron and Cyrix's offerings. Then AMD will start climbing into the mid-range and high-end with the K6-3 and the K7, respectively. Tenchusatsu