Paul-the-Big-Mouth, <Intel has provided a series of Overdrive CPUs to upgrade 486's and Pentiums - you can buy these today from many sources.>
Yes, you can, but who would? Or you mean those 50 bucks rebate
for Pentium owners fooled by Intel's benchmark cheating?
Maybe you are not informed, but people-who-know usually
buy/recommend new systems instead of upgrade. They are doing
this not because it has a label "266" or "300". Label and raw
frequency buys nothing useful.
They buy the new system because of ALL MAJOR SYSTEM COMPONENTS
in old system are OBSOLETE: old non-busmastering disk controller,
no PCI, no power management, no support for EDO DRAM or SDRAM,
NO NEW BIOS to support newer processors, etc. These are things
that determine the real performance of user applications, not
your "overdrive processor".
People are telling you how the upgrade process is going
in reality. You are retyping the blah-blah-blah from your
marketing orientation booklet.
No matter how you classify the Cyrix system, it works and
works fast enough.
Upgradability is not an issue here. After buying a system,
no one would upgrade in less than two years. But after two
years a lot of things will progress, so the right choice
will be again - a new system. I talk to people and build
these systems, I know.
<why don't you make another call to the Justice Department
to Right all these Wrongs!>
Pretending to look paranoidal, as your former boss, eh? Looks
just pathetic.
Ali |
