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To: kash johal who wrote (52011)	3/8/1999 10:52:00 PM
From: Trey McAtee	Respond to of 1579682

kash-- and as for saturns delusional attitude regarding the P3, developers want to sell SW...and people arent buying the top of the line like they used to. it isnt one or the other...at least right now. intel has done a good job of engineering, but their marketing and this segmentation strategy suck. and the advantages of having AMD around are pretty obvious...we now have a sub 1k market, for example, and the PC OEMs have leverage with intel. AMD isnt going to die. but i do love the doom and gloom. makes a stock so much cheaper. good luck to all, trey

To: kash johal who wrote (52011)	3/9/1999 4:39:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Respond to of 1579682

<I think that the consumer has spoken. They prefer the K6 to the Celery.> I already mentioned why this is so. It's purely based on price. The AMD systems I see out there are still $100 less on average than Celeron systems, if you compare equivalent clock speeds. Anyone can win marketshare by going into the red, but like most intelligent people know, this isn't a very sound long-term business strategy. And if AMD thinks they can fund their low-end kamakaze with profits from their high-end K7, they better hope that Intel doesn't drop their own high-end prices all of a sudden and force AMD back into the red. <And as the PIII 3d stuff gets out, it will help the K6 as it has its own version of 3d Support.> That's also wishful thinking to suppose that anyone who writes software for the Pentium III enhancements can be easily convinced to port their software to 3DNow. Tenchusatsu