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To: Ali Chen who wrote (227198)	3/2/2007 12:18:37 AM
From: fastpathguru	Read Replies (1) of 275872

Now, suppose that a Barcelona-based server got better SPECrate scores at your stretch, and the owner of your shop went ahead and bought it, 4 cores 1 chip server. 'Kay... However, since individual Core-2 workstations outperform AMD offerings by 30-50% (peak or not peak, whatever), all employees got core-2s desktops. <doing doubletake> Wha? But you just said Barcelona got better SPECrate scores. Barcelona is a Socket F part, and is used in servers and workstations. theinquirer.net Since in your scenario A) Barcelona is faster at SPECrate, B) purchasing decisions are based on SPECrate, and C) Barcelona is a workstation/server chip, the workstations will be Barcelona-based. (Unless you want to start adding artificial conditions to your scenario, merely to satisfy your argument...) fpg

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