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To: Paul Engel who wrote (4603)2/24/1998 11:58:00 PM
From: Joey Smith  Read Replies (2) of 6843
 
Paul, "K6-233 notebook, check out: winbook.com;

The add doesn't mention that the processor is a K6.

Their sales people (1-800-254-7806) said that it had a Pentium 233 MHz chip inside.

Boy, that's word of mouth for you! Know I know why Winbook is trying to hide the fact that their notebook has a K6. Check out this glowing review of the K6:

The K6 has been touted as a low-cost chip that supports the
multimedia-enhanced MMX instruction set and provides
performance ranging somewhere between that of a Pentium and
Pentium II CPU running at similar clock speeds. The WinBook XL we
tested came with a 233MHz K6 processor, 64MB of RAM and a
3GB hard drive. While it's no slowpoke, the notebook was a bit
sluggish compared with the average 233MHz Pentium system, both
in overall system and multimedia performance. On the Norton Overall
SI System test, the WinBook XL posted a score of 56.2, below the
233MHz field average of 59.2.

Their main disadvantage: lackluster performance

joey
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