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To: steve harris who wrote (72582)	9/20/1999 6:53:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1572598

Steve, <Please elaborate.> Intel's fastest mobile processor is a Celeron 466. AMD's fastest mobile processor is a K6-2 475, at least in clock speed alone. Unfortunately, that K6-2 is hopelessly far behind in performance. I'd be surprised if a K6-2 475 can even beat a Celeron 433. AMD's other mobile processor is a K6-III 450. It beats the Celeron 466 only on Business Winstone 99. It falls behind on many other benchmarks because of its weak floating point performance. That's hardly what I'd consider "world's fastest x86 CPU for notebook computing." (To be fair, though, Business Winstone 99 is a very important benchmark for the mobile market. I'd imagine that not many customers will buy a notebook computer for heavy FPU stuff like CAD or 3D modeling.) Tenchusatsu