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

To: Charles R who wrote (67881)	8/7/1999 3:56:00 AM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575773

<The availability is not that great, glowing press is missing, and there is a general sense of a rushed launch.> Yes the glowing press is missing and the launch is pretty rushed given that a 0.25 micron 600 MHz part wasn't planned until Coppermine was delayed. But as for the availability, I didn't know it wasn't that great. As I said before, I sure had no problem ordering one. I do remember that when the Pentium III 550 MHz was introduced, ZDNet said that Intel was toning down the fanfare compared to previous top-of-the-line releases. The theme from Intel wasn't "Buy it for the performance," but "But it for the Internet." This could be because Intel realizes that computers are fast enough these days. Then again, skeptics will claim that Intel is trying to de-emphasize the performance side of things in an effort to divert attention away from the upcoming K7/Athlon. Either way, the hush-hush impression that you got is actually a result of Intel's change in marketing strategy. <However, it would be good if you can substantiate what you believe is the problem because there aren't even any rumors about stability (not that I heard of anyway).> Actually, stability will always be a concern for a brand new architecture on a brand new platform. I don't know of any stability problems related directly to Athlon. I'm just saying that people who want stability in their systems will not go with Athlon until several months after introduction when some of the bugs have been worked out of the platform. But that won't matter much, since Athlon's initial volumes are so low anyway, there will be more than enough customers who aren't as paranoid about stability. Tenchusatsu