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To: Cirruslvr who wrote (66708)	7/26/1999 8:32:00 PM
From: Charles R	Respond to of 1574091

Cirruslvr, <Also interesting from the link - ""No one really cares about megahertz anymore. We are just being drawn into it. We don't switch until they stop selling the ones we are currently buying," said an IT manager for a Fortune 50 oil company. However, Compaq, IBM, and Dell will also introduce 600-MHz and 500-MHz systems on the consumer side where there is a heightened interest in performance. " So in the commercial world, MHz doesn't matter but in retail it still does. > Me thinks the writer may have missed the point on systems procurement habits of MIS people. Here is what I think happens based on my understanding of the MIS world (anyone out there feel free to correct): MIS guys in general do not like to pay the high premiums of the highest grade processors but the way they work is once an year or so they establish a platform that needs to be deployed for the next "n" months. To protect themselves from fast obsolescence, they pick the highest or the second highest speed grade available on a good "platform" and get that into the company's procurement systems. Once this is done, they do not change the "platform" until a) the next review cycle or b) until users complain about their systems falling behind due to the application load of a new application that MIS mandated on the system or c) the new PCs in the market start shipping with a new "must-have" feature - recent examples of this kind are upgrades to 56k modems, adding a CD-ROM, going for larger Hard drives, etc. d) the vendor tells them that they are running behind the curve and the vendor is about to discontinue that model and the customer needs to move up With this procurement model, most MIS guys will almost always pick the highest speed grades whether they like it or not. With Athlon's arrival, it is entirely possible that a lot of them will limit that to the highest speed grades shipped by Intel. It is going to be interesting to see AMD and the OEMs changing this "Intel" world. Chuck