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To: Elmer who wrote (67036)	7/30/1999 2:25:00 PM
From: Cirruslvr	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578552

Elmer - RE: "Then Intel's mobile processors are faster, cooler and lower power. So pricing must control the market. Is this another example of AMD's predatory pricing practices or PPP for short?" There you go again trying to jump on the predatory pricing bandwagon. Why should AMD charge more for a chip that isn't as cool and requires more power? As far as performance, look at these benchmarks - amd.com Yes they are from AMD's site. But the only unfair advantage the AMD system has is the 1M L3 cache compared to the usual 512K L3 cache usually found. But remember, according to Tom's tests, going from 512K to 1M only increases performance about 2% (http://www5.tomshardware.com/releases/99q1/990223/cpu-news-15.html). So in business/integer based apps, the K6-III rules the performance notebook market. And mobile Coppermine should easily close the performance lead AMD has in 3DMark. Back to the predatory thing - Intel's mobile chips run cooler and longer, but AMD's mobile chips run faster. Both have an advantage and disadvantage and both have the right to lower prices.

To: Elmer who wrote (67036)	7/30/1999 4:13:00 PM
From: fyo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578552

EP - Re: Then Intel's mobile processors are faster, cooler and lower power. That is incorrect. It seems that you missed the whole point of my post, namely that the K6-III is a pretty ideal mobile processor. You know as well as I that it beats a PIII (or any mobile Intel processor) in Winstone performance. Since this is exactly the kind of performance [that I argued] that at least 90% of notebook users were interested in, the K6-III has a performance advantage over Intel processors (albeit a very small one). --fyodor