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To: gnuman who wrote (53853)	4/1/1999 4:15:00 PM
From: d e conway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572159

Thanks for that URL describing incredibly ho-hum PIII demand: "Since then [PIII launch], sales [of PIII] have dropped to 6.5 percent to 7 percent of PC retail sales." Actually, with that outrageous CPU ID fiasco and the it's-only-a-warmed-over-PII aspect, I'm surprised PIII sales are even up to 6%! regards, Dan

To: gnuman who wrote (53853)	4/1/1999 9:32:00 PM
From: Gary Ng	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572159

Gene, Re: Interesting article on Retail PC sales "The retail channel is reporting mixed success for systems based on Intel's Pentium III CPU, though retailers all agree the new chip has not affected low-end volumes." Of course it has not affected low-end volumes, it is a high end chip. My feeling about this report is that the writer has to fill the space. Provide no insight whether PIII is successful or not. If Intel released a PII 500Mhz instead, the same article can be written by just replacing PIII with 'PII 500Mhz'. Gary