<Excellent use of a buzzword. >
Clearly we disagree. People who can implement the spirit behind a buzzword tend to go far in organizations or real life. And, I will leave it at that.
<However, I don't find it pays to proactively solve potential problems by creating real problems.>
I am a believer in dual sourcing based on a lot of experience and I see no merit to this line of thinking.
<However, AMD wouldn't have been able to supply them anyway, ...>
Why would AMD not be able to supply to Dell?
<You're not a system builder are you? >
No, I am not. Are you?
<Compatibility issues were somewhat common, definitely not impossible to get around, but definitely annoying. >
Like I said before, what you seem to be talking about is such a small part of the business, it does not matter. It may matter to you but it didn't matter to the OEMs who successfully sold many millions of K6s.
<In maybe a dozen experiences with Compaq tech support and products, I've built up as much contempt for them as for packard bell. >
Looks like your relationship with Compaq tech support is bad for whatever reason. And, it is not that uncommon for any company to have some problem customer interactions. But there is no way a company with severe customer support problems would be where Compaq is today (#1 world-wide)
<Okay, then share with me what exactly is the ipc difference between willamete and athlon, on fully optimized willamete code for a variety of applications including games, and business suites.>
Good, at least now you are asking a question instead of telling me what I know or do not know.
As far as your request is confirmed, I care very little for that level of info that you are talking about. Let me say that based on what I know, P4 is going to be behind in pretty much every mainstream benchmark at the time of release unless there are some significant compiler/benchmark tweaks from now until then.
<So does this mean you agree that it can not be determined whether the willamete will have a better performance then the athlon? >
Completely unbounded statement. You might want to click back and see what I said. Alternately, feel free to search under my profile to see what I have posted on this topic. |
