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BY: ``Bud Long`` VirtualNET,- #1 AT 1314011
expect CD-ROMs to get cheaper as the 12X CD-ROM and DVD drives come out.
RAM is expected to get as cheap as $5 per megabyte. Rumor has it that Intel w
trying to play the market by having people upgrade to 16M of RAM or higher wi
Windows 95. Intel's figures on the sales of Windows 95 was based on Data
Quest's numbers which placed sales at 100+ Million copies in 1996, only 40
million copies of Windows 95 where sold (There are 350+ Million Windows users
so Intel has put a surplus of memory chips on the market in the millions. Oth
companies such as Siemens, NEC, TI, and Goldstar have done the same thing. Th
result is that RAM got cheaper and these companies lost money.
See, Windows 95 is good for something! 
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First off Mr. Bud... Intel did not produce WIN95, Microsoft did. Secondly,
memory will drop below $5.00 per meg before Xmas. Intel does not PRODUCE
Memory SIMM chips, or have any influence on the market. The major factor in
the memory price drops has been the easy production of high quantity's of EDO
memory, which drove costs way down, and volume way up. This combined with a
large contingent of U.S. Memory now available at substantially lower pricing
forced a price war between the foreign importers and the US makers. The US
makers will win this battle, as you can probably tell if you were currently
buying quantities of memory(90% are now made in the US). We are winning a
battle against the overseas marketer's, and it has created a windfall for the
consumer. Get your facts straight.
     Also, regarding CDROM's. Expect CDROMS to become MORE expensive, since
producers were losing money on the cheap 4x series, they have removed the 6x
from the market so that they can concentrate on the 8x and above which still
remain above their profit break-even line. Don't expect cdrom's to drop below
$60 again anytime soon, as this product is tied to a price-point just like
IDE Harddrives are tied to the $140 barrier.


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