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To: Ali Chen who wrote (75098)	10/12/1999 12:40:00 AM
From: Yousef	Respond to of 1573215

Ali, Re: "Therefore the potential overcapacity from Fab25 and Fab30 creates some insurance ..." Oh "screwed driver", that's mighty expensive "insurance" that you're talking about. A good portion of AMD's Q3 100M$+ loss can be attributed to your "insurance policy". Unless AMD can either increase Laugh-A-Long volumes OR find a partner, the "insurance policy" cost will continue to grow. You need to reconsider this "policy". <ggg> Make It So, Yousef

To: Ali Chen who wrote (75098)	10/12/1999 1:03:00 AM
From: Petz	Respond to of 1573215

Sharky now says: "we now heartily recommend the Athlon 700 CPU, and the systems based around it." Page 1 of Athlon 700 review: www1.sharkyextreme.com On the stability of the Athlon platform: One of the primary fallacies of logic is to make a hasty generalization to the masses from experience gained on a singular scale. Taking our early Athlon system's good stability and peripheral compatibility results, (which was provided from AMD themselves) and generalizing them to readers as if every single future Athlon system would perform the same way would be falling into that trap. But now, two months have passed since the Athlon's introduction, and we're happy to report that the Athlon platform continues to impress both our own staff and the many system integrators who manufacture Athlon-based PCs in terms of stability and peripheral compatibility. This feedback, from companies who have now purchased and sold thousands of Athlon systems, is a heck of a lot better control group to draw from than a single reviewer with a single Athlon PC when making sweeping recommendation statements to readers. The Athlon is now a pretty good-looking recipe for a power-system in our minds, but the entr‚e is about to get even tastier... Conclusions: www1.sharkyextreme.com While the true "fans" of both Intel and AMD, who fire flames daily against one another on the Sharky Extreme Discussion Board, tend not to be swayed much by reviews, the vast majority of consumers use online reviews to gauge whether or not they should choose a certain upgrade path. They trust that the media is looking at every aspect of a system's capability in addition to its performance level, so they don't get burned by throwing large cash at a PC that they're not happy with later. For those readers, we now heartily recommend the Athlon 700 CPU, and the systems based around it. It's got a massive level of horsepower that propels it through games and applications with relative ease, while retaining full compatibility with every Win98 app we threw at it. It's also got enough juice to compare well with Intel's next-generation CPU introductions for the rest of 1999 and into early 2000. BTW, the Athlon 700 obliterated the P3-600 systems whether based on RDRAM/Camino or SDRAM/BX. Petz