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To: Scumbria who wrote (58733)	5/19/1999 10:55:00 AM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572377

RE:"I don't think the low bus speed will be of much consequence. The bus speed does not affect DRAM latency. Bus speed is of far more significance for CPUs with off chip caches.".... Yes, I realize that, maybe 1%. Intel can't afford a 100MHz bus Celeron. Interestingly I was in a Gateway store yesterday. The had a nice K6-2-475 on display. I asked how the K6-2s were selling. They said OK. They also said the Pentium IIIs were selling better because of the higher end peripherals that came with those machines. The cost of those machines was basically double. The Pentium IIIs get bundled with the higher end computers. I wonder what could be done to get the lower priced chips to get bundled with the higher end peripherals? Seems that at least on the retail end that Intels segmentation strategy is holding up. Jim

To: Scumbria who wrote (58733)	5/20/1999 1:23:00 AM
From: Paul Engel	Respond to of 1572377

SCUMbria - Re read this McMannic Post RE:"I don't think the low bus speed will be of much consequence. The bus speed does not affect DRAM latency. Bus speed is of far more significance for CPUs with off chip caches.".... Yes, I realize that, maybe 1%. Intel can't afford a 100MHz bus Celeron. Interestingly I was in a Gateway store yesterday. The had a nice K6-2-475 on display. I asked how the K6-2s were selling. They said OK. They also said the Pentium IIIs were selling better because of the higher end peripherals that came with those machines. The cost of those machines was basically double. The Pentium IIIs get bundled with the higher end computers. I wonder what could be done to get the lower priced chips to get bundled with the higher end peripherals? Seems that at least on the retail end that Intels segmentation strategy is holding up.