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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: Goutam who wrote (72592)9/20/1999 8:04:00 PM
From: Mani1  Read Replies (2) of 1574005
 
Recent computer shopper (OCT 99)

Many vendors offering Athlon at up to 650 (only Cybermax at 700). Also many offering the K6-2 AND K6-III at 500 MHz.

Lots of full page adds followed by Athlon based systems, about the Athlon being this and that.

Also from Page 82 to 93 is AMD only adds. It look like they are subsidized by AMD. On the upper right of each page is a sologan saying "shop smart, choose AMD". The actual adds are from Compaq (one page for mobile, another for desktop), Cyber Max, AOpen custom PC, Midwest Micro, tiger direct and Nvidia (most interesting of all). Nvidia was touting their chips to be compatible with 3D Now!

I was pleasently surprised by all the advertisement and the hype regarding Athlon and also at wide scale availability of K62 500 and K6III 500. The cover page is also about the Athlon Vs. PIII. Guess which one they say performs better?

Mani
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