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To: Diamond Jim who wrote (84252)	12/28/1999 10:25:00 PM
From: steve harris	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574171

Jim, I bet Michael Dell's little children are still POed that someone stole their iNtEL 750 sample so PC World could run some benchmarks. ROTFLMAO All the iNtellibies should read the fine print on "how" it appears the iNtEL BEAT the Athlon. Test tomorrow. InTel is Scrambling! TM Jim McMannis Make it so, Mysef

To: Diamond Jim who wrote (84252)	12/28/1999 10:27:00 PM
From: Cirruslvr	Respond to of 1574171

Jim - RE: "That said, the PC WorldBench 98 results for all three processors were quite good, and very close. The PIII-750 posted the highest PC WorldBench 98 score of the three at 315; the 800-MHz Athlon landed a score of 309. That's a virtually imperceptible difference of less than 2 percent. Of the 750-MHz Athlon systems, the AMD reference system scored 305 and the Presario, 289" Big whoopdedoo... The Intel reference system may be faster but it contains RamBUST DRDRAM which raises the price of that system a LOT. The AMD reference system gives up 3% in performance but probably has at LEAST a 10% lower cost. Therefore the Athlon system is the better choice for price/performance. "Customers can configure the Polywell system to their taste; the PC we tested is priced at $2800. Polywell is already taking orders for the Athlon-800 PC on its Web site and by phone. Company executives say they expect to begin shipping the 800-MHz systems after January 10, and plan to offer a Pentium III-800 system soon after that." So Intel announced the PIII 800 NINE days ago but Polywell won't be able to ship those systems until AFTER the Athlon 800 system comes out in January? Looks like it was another FLOPPERMINE launch. "Intel beat AMD out of the gate with its Pentium III-800, announced on December 20, but we still haven't tested an 800-MHz PIII system (stay tuned)." PC World still hasn't even tested a PIII 800? STAY TUNED!!!