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To: kash johal who wrote (50516)	2/22/1999 6:01:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (3) of 1572630

<Folks who want extra horsepower and want to pay 30-40% less are likely to go with the K-3 Mobiles as long as 20% less battery life is OK. I can see no compelling arguments for anyone to go with PII or Celeron mobiles frankly.> I don't get it. Even a 30% discount on the CPU is slightly offset by the higher cost of the 100 MHz motherboard and PC100 SDRAM. And a 20% less battery life is significant, unless you're willing to plug in your K6-3 laptop every time you use it. Would you sacrifice 20% of your battery life just to get a 5% advantage on Winstone 99? (Even that 5% advantage is in jeopardy if that K6-3 laptop doesn't have any L3 cache or doesn't use a 100 MHz bus.) Let's not forget about that poor FPU, shall we? The K6-3 is a great desktop chip, no doubt about it. But remember what you said before about taking K6-3 CPUs that can't run at 400 MHz and plopping them into a laptop at a lower voltage and clock speed? Given that the K6-3 in the desktop form needs 2.4 volts (0.2 more than the K6-2), I can't imagine how AMD is going to shoehorn it into the mobile world. So now what happens to the K6-3 CPUs that can't hit 400 MHz or above? Tenchusatsu

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