The PT2006 has been out long enough to be proven. We have sold lots of them (for less than you paid), and their return rate is low. Clearly, if you have no cache problems, your vendor has done a good job selecting the cache module. Go to the Taiwan version of the website, and it will have downloads for you on BIOS updates.
The url is www.fic.com.tw
The 6x86 has been a good product for us, as provided by IBM. Cyrix CPU's have serious problems with heat and we put in IBM's and the problem goes away.
The compatibility and heat problems are survivable as long as you look out for the latter. As for acceptance by the big boys, I don't think Cyrix can supply the demand of the little guys right now, and IBM may also be short on product.
There will be plenty of M2 hype when the time is right. For now, you just have to get heavy doses of said hype from fuchi in this forum. I don't know the real intro date, but Carl Rohman, who specilizes in Quantum Mechanics, Engineering, Marine Biology, History, Finance, Law, Obstetrics, and College Football will no doubt enlighten us on the precise timing of the M2, and exactly how many of them will sell when.
I understand he is the market-maker around here.
As for me, I will get excited about the M2 when our receptionist can take one, replace a Pentium in a ZIF socket, boot it, and run it, for under $200 before the Husker Sping game. |
