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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ali Chen who wrote (65861)	7/16/1999 9:27:00 PM
From: fyo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578539

Ali - Re: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. In terms of their (the 99% of users) PRODUCTIVITY, you are right. However, what counts is their PERCEPTION of it. People WANT faster computers. If some kid is writing up a report for school that has taken 50 hours to research and draft, he/she will still be incredibly annoyed at MS Word being too slow at inserting/handling graphics. I could give countless similar examples, but I believe my point is clear. Also, PRODUCTIVITY doesn't include games. And, face it, games constitute a large reason of why people want faster computers. --fyodor