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To: Dan3 who wrote (169931)8/24/2002 10:43:08 AM
From: Road Walker  Read Replies (2) of 186894
 
Dan,

re: AMD never committed any fraudulent acts.

They used modelhurtz numbers to deceive unsophisticated consumers into thinking they were buying a higher clock speed computer. There must be at least a couple of hundred thousand consumers who thought, when they bought a 1800+ (or whatever) AMD computer, that they were buying one that ran at 1800 MHz. And probably 10 times that many who would claim that they did.

I'm not defending the consortium. In fact I think that almost every benchmark is rigged to a certain degree. The industry needs a new way to measure system performance, if they truly care about the end user. All this component benchmarking crap is smoke, it's the combination of components that make a significant difference in performance. Going from 128MB to 256MB of RAM probably makes more real world difference than 300 MHz in clock speed, who are you gonna sue over that?

On the plaintiff side, I would rather be going up against AMD than the BAPCo.

John
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