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To: Paul Engel who wrote (72800)	9/23/1999 8:30:00 AM
From: steve harris	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572139

PRengle re:Conclusion - The Winner? I was hoping you could draw your own conclusion. If you're on a budget, by all means get the Celeron 500. If you need the fastest PC in the world, get the Athlon. With Intel continuing to cut it's prices since it cannot sell the P3 against the faster Athlon, there is no reason to buy the P3, only to watch its value and price avalanche. If you would like to build the fastest PC Paul, you should visit this site first. www1.amd.com So what is your conclusion PR? And do you think Intel can fix their reliability problems in the P3 600? I would guess the P3 would be dropped shortly if they can get the Coppermine out. Have a good day! steve

To: Paul Engel who wrote (72800)	9/23/1999 9:27:00 AM
From: steve harris	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572139

Here you go PRengel, some juicy stuff you would love. aceshardware.com ". . . .There was only one reason that Gateway was shipping AMD product and that was to some insecurity at Intel. It worked but was very painful. It was a horrible experience from a manufacturing standpoint. The qualification process was twice as long as a comparable Intel product and the quality of the processors coming in was very poor. The motherboards still had jumpers and the known problems list at product release was around 70 items long although not all were critical. That's huge. Thermal problems prevented production startup and cost Gateway nearly 200 million in lost revenue. The order backlog grew to 60k units and GW was unable to ship for 5 weeks. Roughly 50% of the first orders were cancelled prior to shipment. This hit GW very hard in the spring and caused them to yank the AMD configs back from sales and then re-introduce very late in the product cycle. . ." Have a good day! steve