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To: Elmer who wrote (79984)	11/15/1999 11:37:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578148

Elmer, <Pretty dumb but what was sad was AMD had to resort to an outright lie claiming to be faster than any Intel processor clock for clock.> I just caught the commercial a minute ago on MNF. I don't mind the "outright lie" considering that Apple has been saying the same thing for quite a while now. Remember those "Pentium II on a snail" commercials, or more recently the "G4 guarded by tanks"? Come to think of it, I don't know if the "faster than Pentium" claim will really work anymore thanks to Apple's overuse of that claim. As for the quality of the commercial itself ... er ... it ranks right up there with Intel's "I feel pretty" Blue Door commercial. Remember that? Tenchusatsu

To: Elmer who wrote (79984)	11/16/1999 12:10:00 AM
From: Bill Jackson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578148

Elmer, WHat do you mean Intel is faster? The Athlon is faster than the coppermine for the same clock speed for 99% of the benchmarks I have seen on third party review sites. In fact lower speed Athlons beat faster P-IIIs on many benchmarks. So it is no lie....it is quite true. Bill

To: Elmer who wrote (79984)	11/16/1999 1:50:00 AM
From: Paul Engel	Respond to of 1578148

Elmer - Re: " Just saw an AMD commercial on Monday Night Football. Pretty dumb " I saw this - about 20 minutes into the game. It came less than a minute after the announcers stated that MNF was "brought to you" by Intel's Pentium III. The rapid pace of the commercial rattled off something about the Pentium III then kept repeating "AMD ATHLON", "AMD ATHLON", "AMD ATHLON" - right up until some train crashed into the guy in the commercial. I thought that this was an INTEL commercial trashing the ATHLON, showing the wrecked train while yelling "AMD ATHLON", "AMD ATHLON", "AMD ATHLON" ! I have a feeling that many, many viewers got the same impression - that the commercial was showing how an "AMD ATHLON" would cause that train to wreck. Poor AMD - they can't even get a commercial right. Paul