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pinhead@inlink.com wrote:

>T. R. Kinney <trk1@smartnet.net> wrote:

>>pearlman@intac.com (Ted Pearlman) writes:
>>> (If you want to send an e-mail response, send it to Gary Heiman at 
>>> gah13@columbia.edu)
>>> 
>>> To All,
>>> 
>>> I am thinking of buying an all-in-one pentium system soon, but I am 
>>> wondering if I should wait for an upcoming price drop (due to the 
>>> unveiling of the P6).  Does anyone expect a pentium price drop soon for 
>>> this or any other reason?  What do you think system prices will drop to?
>>> 
>>> Thanks immensely in advance,
>>> 
>>> Gary Heiman
>>> gah13@columbia.edu
>>> 


>>I would wait if you can until 1stQ 96. When the P150 is released,
>>and the regular quarterly price drop comes around. Of course if
>>the family wants one for Christmas there are plenty of good deals
>>now.

>You gotta relize there will always be price drops.  If you wait till
>the market is going to stabalize you will never buy a PC.  While you'd
>think the P6 would result in a P5 plunge I wouldn't bet on it
>considering Intel has the P6 aimed at a different market, the
>server/network Windows NT guys, at least for now.  Intel can cut
>prices to wholesalers at any time.   Buy your computer and never look
>at these newsgroups again, the falling prices will make you sick :)

>pinhead@inlink.com

	The P6 really isn't an issue in the pricing structure of the pentium
chip.  It's a nice piece of technology, but it's geared for corporate
duty, not the home & small business market
	Another factor which, ostensibly, will make first quarter `96 an
attractive time for a P5 purchase is the December `95 release of
Cyrix'  x686 chip which, by all available pre-release data, will run
32 -and- 16-bit apps considerably faster than a Pentium of equivalent
clock speed. 
	Locally, I can pick up an Intel Triton MB w/ 133 Mhz pentium chip &
256Kb L2 cache for just under $800.00+tax.  I expect by the time the
Cyrix-powered systems acheive market acceptance (Mar `95) I will be
able to pick up that same board/chip for $100.00 less.  That is,
barring an unforseen disaster shrinking the pool of available
pentiums.  (Not likely)
	And, oh yeah, don't read ad's in the trades, view hardware newsgroups,
or go near a hardware house for at least six months, you will feel
better about your purchase if you don't focus on how quickly it loses
it's value.
	One ray of hope... technology prognosticators predict that sometime in
the middle of the next century technology for personal computers will
plateau due to the restraint of the laws of physics.  (Tongue planted
firmly in cheek)
			Best `o luck,   Hal