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To: dybdahl who wrote (119179)11/25/2000 2:19:42 PM
From: Paul Engel  Read Replies (2) of 186894
 
DieBall - Re: "Tom thinks that nobody can justify to buy a P4, because no market needs extreme SSE2 performance on an otherwise slow processor. Has anybody examples that shows he is wrong? "

In case you are terminally confused, the Pentium 4 has been "out" for only 5 days.

Tom - don't forget - is some diesenfranchised dork in Germany that has the influence of a mosquito on the PC buyng public.

Re: "Toms Hardware chose a DVD encoding benchmark for testing P4 against Athlon, and chose an SSE2 method to do this first, but after some external input he changed his mind to use Floating Point, because the results were better."

Precisely - the results were better for Tom's agenda.

And Tom's agenda - to bash Intel - is an old phenomenon that most people recognize and laugh at - or just ignore.

People buy AMD CPU/PCs for one of two reasons:

1. They are not Intel
2. They are usually cheap - and they want CHEAP (and they get it).

After 31 years, AMD has a modest 17% market share - and Intel's current product line up looks more than adequate to maintain or decrease AMD at the 17% level.

You might saunter in to a retail PC store during the Christmas buying season and watch consumers buying patterns - and you will most certainly spot the dominant trend to buying mobile and notebook PCs.

And 98% of these have Intel Inside.

Paul
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