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To: Cirruslvr who wrote (68124)	8/9/1999 2:20:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Respond to of 1573096

<The best news: You won't have to pay a premium for all that speed. Fully loaded Athlon-650 systems (sans monitor) should cost $2100 to $2400, which is about what you'll pay for a comparably equipped, though slower, Pentium III-600 PC.> Gee, that's strange, considering that the going price for the Athlon 650 (not available yet) is $200 over a Pentium III 600 (available in large quantities). Oh well. Maybe they meant Athlon 600, which is comparable in price to a Pentium III 600. Sharky Extreme said, "The Athlon 600 CPU performs as AMD has promised for the most part, although it's not as dramatically superior in performance to the P3-600 as some of AMD's early PR might have indicated." Now comes the question of availability. One million Athlons is AMD's milestone for Q4. But given Jerry "We're back" Sanders' credibility, those one million Athlons probably won't make it to the end user until Q1 2000. Tenchusatsu