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To: fyo who wrote (65859)	7/16/1999 7:58:00 PM
From: Ali Chen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578510

Fyo, <I can't even think of a single synthetic CPU benchmark where the K6-2/300 beats...> You seem to have the same extremist's thinking: "beat", "killer", "leave in the dust".. etc. As Sanders said, it is not a sprint, it is a marathon. On one side, all computers wait at the same rate. What home PC does 95% of it's time? It waits. The real productivity of 99% users DOES NOT DEPEND on the 5-10% performance lead of P-400 versus K6-300. It performs really well, as well as any P-400,450,500...whatever. On the other side, a Athlon-550 will exceed any market-available P-III in every benchmark. In floating point, a Xeon would need to heat up to 1000MHz to get up to Athlon-600 results. So what? Do you really think these things would change buying habits of public? Not much. To succeed, AMD needs to offer 3 things: "slightly better", "slightly cheaper" and "always available". So far they seem to get #1, while ##2 and 3 are at some question with K7. With K6 they got #2 but were short of #1 and #3. The major fight for AMD is still ahead.