PB - RE: "Next, when experienced PC buyers shop for PCs, they typically -- in my experience -- want Intel, too. I don't want to disparage a specific company or brand, because I know that all companies work hard to survive and my two isolated experiences are not enough to make sweeping statements, but I will not buy any PC without an Intel chip. I've worked extensively on two PCs with chips other than Intel and the performance difference bordered on extreme. One PC froze nearly every time you used it for more than a few hours. The other PC consistently had to be rebooted for whatever reason. With Intel, I've only had good experiences."
What the heck is this guy writing about???
If IBM puts the Athlon in their S-series of PCs, the highest, best systems they offer, they are going to build a solid system. They aren't going to charge ~$2500 for a system that has to be "rebooted for whatever reason".
Yes, I realize that since the K6-2 is a cheap chip, it is going to go into cheap PCs, but if the system is from Compaq or IBM or Gateway, I would expect stability. What brand PC did he have? That is much more important than what chip is inside (because he talked about stability, not performance).
The author also wrote this -
"The 600 MHz
Coppermine Pentium III should outperform the
Athlon when it arrives in November, but
already AMD is putting its hopes on a 700
MHz chip by the fourth quarter."
How in the world does he know this? We already expect CuLatermine to be at least 10% better than the current PIII, but we don't even have real-world benchmarks of EITHER chip!
I think he is writing what he wants to happen, not what may happen. |
