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To: Process Boy who wrote (56677)	4/28/1999 1:44:00 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1570280

RE:"I know you know how this works by now. The PIII's price will come down, as speed upgrades are introduced over time."... Apparently so. P-III will just replace pricing of the P-II. P-II will be phased out. Also, I can't argue with the facts. That Intel is maintaining margins. Someone is buying P-II-IIIs and Xeons to the tune of compensating for any margin loss due to Celeron. On the other hand, at 466MHz, Intel is pushing the envelope more than ever. They are caught between a rock and a hard place. They don't want to move the Celeron too close to the Pentium III but have to because the K6-2 is at 475. Jim

To: Process Boy who wrote (56677)	4/28/1999 3:52:00 PM
From: Kevin K. Spurway	Respond to of 1570280

Re: "I don't necessarily believe this is a scenario that will come to pass. My crystal ball must be foggy today. It certainly hasn't come to pass yet." I gotta agree with you on this one. The public is ignorant and it will remain that way. Look at how much power credit card companies and credit rating agencies, or even the IRS, have right now, and nobody really cares. Unless there's some major incident, there's no way there will ever be a backlash against the hardware ID serious enough to threaten it. Kevin