From: Randal Whittle (rwhittle_at_usa.net)
Date: Wed Jun 03 1998 - 16:20:16 EDT
At 12:02 PM 6/3/98 , letoured_at_sover.net wrote:
>Does anyone have any thoughts on when the prices of the TP 600 might drop?
Usually that happens when its replacement is readied. :-)
>The question is prompted because I heard Intel will reduce prices this
>month, and the IBM TP 600 web info indicates that the processor is an
>"Intel or equivalent" which implies that then AMD p-II chip s might be
>used in the near future.
Somehow I doubt it--at least the AMD option. If Intel drops price, IBM
may pass it along, but I doubt they'll switch to AMD.
To my knowledge, other than some specialty TP's that use a PowerPC CPU,
there's never been anything other than Intel x86's in them.
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Randal J. Whittle whittle_at_usc.edu (213) 740-7775
Director, Electronic Commerce Program
Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California
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