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

To: Gopher Broke who wrote (74779)	10/11/1999 4:18:00 AM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573922

Gopher More Losses - Re: "This is the "Why drive a Porsche when the speed limit is 55?" argument. It doesn't hold water." No it isn't. Last year all you AMDroids complained that the fastest CPU anyone needed was the 350 MHz K6-2 - since that was all that AMD made at that time ! Suddenly, every little old schoolteacher, accountant and gas station operator needs a 700 MHz AThFLOPPEROO ! Gopher Brain - Re: "The sub-$500 PC is not so interesting to us consumers any more. "I got a really great deal on a PC" - Yea, well, so did we all. One of those square grey ones right?" Translation - AMD is losing money on these - so Consumers don't REALLY want or Need them. Consumers only want AMD's current fastest. So what if that was a 350 MHz Kdawg 6 last year. Now, everybody needs 700 MHz to run all that new software such as ................ Such as what, Gopher Coffee ? Paul