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To: Goutam who wrote (87472)	1/16/2000 4:23:00 AM
From: Y. Samuel Arai	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572888

I'm not sure if this has already been posted here before, but according to an article in PC Computing magazine (Feb.2000), there will be three new Game Console machines coming out this fall, to compete against the Sega Dreamcast. They are: the Sony Playstation 2, the Nintendo Dolphin, and the Microsoft X-Box. The Playstation 2 will run on a 128-bit Hitachi "Emotion Engine" CPU; the Nintendo Dolphin will run on a "400Mhz IBM Copper Chip"; the Microsoft X-Box will run on the AMD Athlon processor. According to the article, Microsoft sources say that the X-Box will use the AMD Athlon coupled with an nVidia graphics processor, and run PC games on DVD-ROM, and come with a 56K modem. They say that "it will blur the line between computer and video gaming forever, not to mention provide PC gamers the plug-and-play convenience they've always envied in consoles." It will also mean PC Game software engineers developing for the X-Box will have a much easier time engineering games, as they will be developing for a common hardware platform, thus be able to perfect and fine-tune their games for it. This should also lead to releases of "Microsoft" compilers that optimize for the Athlon soon.

To: Goutam who wrote (87472)	1/16/2000 3:14:00 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1572888

Goutama and thread; A friend of mine is getting a new pc and was asking me which way she should go in terms of a cpu (I have become the pc espert among my friends....scary, huh?...and I owe it all to this thread). The deal is GTW is offering her a 600 Athlon or 500 PIII plus $200 worth of ISP hours free....all other components are the same except for the motherbds of course. With all the cost data you have been gathering, can you discern what the 500 PIII cost GTW vs the Athlon 600? It looks to be about the same. If so, is AMD intentionally undercutting Intel or are Athlon yields so good they are selling the 600's as 500's? Let me know what you or anyone else thinks. BTW I told my friend to go with the Athlon, of course...it was actually pretty easy. She works with powerpoint a lot and does a lot of graphics. But to impress her, I said the Athlon's architecture was better. She then told me that although he did not talk about architecture (that's because he doesn't post on this thread), the sales rep definitely was steering her towards the Athlon. In conclusion, GTW sure didn't let any grass grow under it....they announce the Athlon this week and already they are going out the door.....do I hear ca-ching for Q1, 2000?!! ted