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To: Diamond Jim who wrote (83706)	12/20/1999 6:09:00 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577893

Diamond Jim and thread: I have to relay to you all some consumer response to the Athlon. In Sept I was polling my tech guy re the Athlon. At the time he spoke favorably re the chip but not with a great deal of emotion. Well, I just spoke with him because I have to upgrade my microprocessor. I am currently with a Pentium 166 MHz....man, that seemed so big 5 yrs ago and want to go to 500+ MHz. It turns out the lack of MHz was the problem with my stealth cursor....I discussed it on the thread this summer....it would fade out after a couple of hours of being online. In any case I have to upgrade. He mentioned maybe going to a k6-2 or another pentium. Then I said how about the Athlon. He went nuts...."the Athlon is the sweetest chip; my friends who do games are going crazy; the benchmarks against the Pentium are incredible", etc. It was funny...I could not shut him up and get him back to my problem.....this is a guy who usually says as few words as possible. Win or lose against intc, AMD has come out with a very well liked chip. ted

To: Diamond Jim who wrote (83706)	12/20/1999 6:15:00 PM
From: Y. Samuel Arai	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1577893

>"[Intel] want(s) to have the bragging rights to the fastest chip >in the new millennium," said Ashok Kumar, an analyst at US Bancorp >Piper Jaffray, adding that Intel had been targeting sometime in the >first half of next year to ship 800 megahertz Pentium IIIs. Maybe AMD will counter with an announcement of an 800 and an 850 Athlon, on the evening of Dec.31st, rebuffing Intel's "bragging rights," and too late for Intel to take the crown going into the year 2000. BTW, doesn't the "new millenium" start in the year 2001, and NOT 2000?