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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (82053)	5/29/1999 4:05:00 PM
From: Amy J	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Re: "the great fallacy I see in the PCOAC concept is the lack of flexibility. Somewhere there is a weak point. Either the CPU core, speed, audio, video. Now, if Intel can develop a manufacturing and design process where the individual components can be replaced easily that would be the key. Otherwise, the PCOAC will always be the dregs. With the two chip solution, ie. i810 chipset + CPU, there is a lot more flexibility. I thought this was Intels original thinking." Interesting question. Amy J

To: Jim McMannis who wrote (82053)	5/29/1999 6:51:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Jim - Re: ", the great fallacy I see in the PCOAC concept is the lack of flexibility. Somewhere there is a weak point. Either the CPU core, speed, audio, video..." For $399 or $499 PCs, do you see the buyers of these machines pouring over the Quake FPS benchmarks or Winstone 99 scores ? Nope. They look at the price, maybe the memory size and the disk drive capacity. Put the INTEL INSIDE sticker on the front, and these machines will walk out the door. For OPTIMAL SYSTEM performance, Intel offers whatever people want in "non-integrated" CPUs - today - 550 MHz Pentium /// or Pentium /// Xeons, 440 BX chips and Coppermine and Camino and Colusa coming to the plate. Wilammette/Foster is in the On-Deck circle. Merced is batting clean-up. Intel has all the bases covered. Play Ball ! Paul