Ted, <report availability in your areas>
After reading your post I could not resist and
drove to the nearest shopping area.
Results:
Best Buy: Compaq model 5888 (Athlon 700MHz)
- 7 on racks, several 5868 (600MHz), and
several 500MHz models, full spectrum. IBMs are
650, 600, and 550 only, few NEC-500MHz, hard
to count everything. Judging from overall types
of boxes, the impression about Intel/AMD ratio
is 50/50. Surprisingly, no 733, no 700, no 650,
nor any other Floppermines.
Notebook count is 5:7 for AMD.
Another observation: as usual, Athlon demo on
IBM display machine sucks big. There is an AMD
marketing clip, but it is never running, in
contrast with HP P-III demo machine. Could this
indolent inept AMD marketing do something about
this? Some screen saver, always on top in 1 minute?
Is it really hard to do?
CC - Compaq 5888 (Athlon-700) - 1 stock, 1 demo.
No Pentiums above 600.
CompUSA - few Compaq Athlons. Eventually, a HP 8595C
model - 733MHz, 1 - demo, 1 - stock. No other
models.
Draw your own conclusions.
Regards,
- Ali |
