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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Windsock who wrote (85698)1/7/2000 12:15:00 AM
From: Buckwheat  Read Replies (2) of 1580615
 
Windsock, the Polywell system cost $2800 as tested. I wonder what the Intel 750 reference system would have cost. I'm sure the RAMBUS memory alone would have cost around $900.

$900 will buy more performance improvements in other sub-systems (hard drives, Ultra SCSI-2, video, more SDRAM) than a faster processor can provide.

Regardless of the winner, I have little faith in PC World's comparison testing. Comparatively configured to them means all of the machines were shipped with a beige case. I guess that's why an Apple was not included in the test.

Buckwheat
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