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To: Yousef who wrote (43599)	12/17/1998 8:58:00 PM
From: Buckwheat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573889

An interesting observation/perception made today by someone over at the Sharky Extreme site. ---------------------------------------------------------------- One of Sharky Extreme's sharp-eyed readers (stud-boy John McMillan) brought it to our attention that the much ballyhooed Celeron 300 A has been dropping in price at a rate that's disproportional to the rest of Intel's lineup the past four weeks. After talking to the owners of three very large tier-2 system/component vendors in the United States, the consensus is that the market is currently flooded with Celeron 300 As. With inventories beginning to rise to a problematic point, the three vendors we spoke with indicated that they've been dropping the price of the Celeron 300 A themselves, without assistance from Intel Why isn't the Celeron 300 A selling at the brisk pace it deserves to? All three vendors answered with the same response: AMD It seems that the K6-2 line is still the first choice of low volume system integrators building PCs designed for the sub-$1,000 market. According to the vendors, they're currently selling the AMD K6-2 300 CPU at a rate that's four times greater than the Intel Celeron 300 A ---------------------------------------------------------------- Buckwheat