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To: Trey McAtee who wrote (51213)	2/27/1999 8:34:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1570760

Tray - Re: "AMD is going to eat intel alive" Send this one to Jay Leno - he's always looking for a joke. Paul

To: Trey McAtee who wrote (51213)	2/27/1999 8:38:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1570760

Trey - re: " consistently now AMD has released technology either slightly ahead of or on par with intel " Like the K63? Jacked UP in voltage and STILL 100 MHz slower than the Pentium III - and SLOWER in nearly EVERY CONCEIVABLE BENCHMARK TEST ? "For what it's worth, this CPU is really not what all the hype was all about - K6-III" Send this one to Leno as well ! Paul

To: Trey McAtee who wrote (51213)	2/28/1999 2:33:00 AM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 1570760

<you make some good points, however, the retail market is where the money is going to be in the coming years.> You've got to be kidding me. The retail market is where the lack of money will be, as computer systems start selling for no more than VCRs. If you quickly want to turn the computer market into a commodity, you go after the retail market. <business will still be important, but heres the caveat...businesses are going to start seeing real margin squeezes. as that happens the costs of a computer are going to be much tougher to hide.> Uh, what squeezes? Unlike the retail market, businesses are far less cost-sensitive and far more concerned about reliability and/or manageability. They want to deploy the computers with a minimum of hassle, keep crashes down to a minimum, and be able to service the computers as quickly and expediently as possible. You're not going to get there with an el-cheapo K6-2 E-machine whose reliability is questionable. Tenchusatsu