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To: Bill Jackson who wrote (79931)	11/15/1999 2:09:00 PM
From: Elmer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1580023

Intel further extends it's performance lead: biz.yahoo.com Compaq Announces Powerful New Deskpro PCs and Deskpro Workstations With Intel 820 Chipset; New High-Performance Graphics Solutions Now Certified on Compaq Professional Workstations . . . The Intense3D Wildcat 4110 PRO produces the fastest OPCSpec Viewperf benchmark results in the industry. This is the first time a graphics solution designed for the Intel-based workstation market has exceeded the performance of the fastest RISC-based solution. Compaq's top-of-the-line Professional Workstation SP750 is the first Intel-based workstation to lead the industry in all five SPEC Viewperf benchmarks, as a result of the Wildcat 4110's unmatched graphics performance and Intel's latest Pentium III Xeon(TM) processors running at 733 MHz.(2) CuMine... World's highest performance processor....

To: Bill Jackson who wrote (79931)	11/15/1999 2:17:00 PM
From: Charles R	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1580023

Bill, <The easy-PC is the same type of tech that all the screwdriver shops have been doing for ages. A standard case, power supply etc. Easy to upgrade the mobo etc. Will the AMD product be the same? or will they change the shape of the mobo for each CPU making an upgrade impossible...like Dell does?> To me, the beauty of easy-PC to me is not in the hardware but in the user-friendlyness. I don't think many people will open the box so I wouldn't even mind a sealed box with everything soldered. Easy-PC is about legacy-free and consumer friendlyness to me. Legacy-free means consumer probably get systems with fewer crashes, can easily add and remove peripherals with fewer hassles, need to do low-maintainance, etc. The instant-on is also a long-overdue and shows this industry is finally focussing on consumers instead of techies. Chuck