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Subject: Re: Jeremiah Go to www.Dell.com. You can order it right now at a reasonable

Author: Jeremiah Penery

Date: 22:13:33 02/21/03

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On February 22, 2003 at 00:19:03, Charles Worthington wrote:

>>>Would you like to see the statement? go to www.dell.com precision workstation
>>>650. Check first then tell what i havent already paid for.

Did I make ANY mention of one not being able to ORDER such system?  No.
I only said that I doubt it SHIPS this week.

>>Intel has released the 3.06 xeon to dell in limited quantities. in fact it has
>>been a subject of discussion here for three days now. They will be more than
>>happy to build and ship one for you right now.

They're more than happy to SELL you one.  But until Intel says 'go', I doubt
they're happy to SHIP one.

>From what i understand intel does not in:-)tend to announce its release until
>late march. I actually called intel myself and the customer service rep at intel
>didnt even know it was released until he went to dell.com and looked for
>himself.

This was known about 2 weeks ago:  http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=7608

The fact is, Dell started selling the chips before they were supposed to.
Whatever they tell you, I still doubt the machine ships until Intel officially
announces the chip.



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