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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (91046)	2/2/2000 3:10:00 AM
From: Joe NYC	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574569

Jim Why would you get the inferior Coppermine when you can get an Athlon for the same or less? I don't think Coppermine is inferior in business apps. They are about the same performance-wise at the same clock speed, with Athlon leading slightly on the price front, and hugely in availability. But I need some of the workstations I need have to be NLX (slim desktop case because of lack of space), and there aren't any Athlon NLX motherboards available. For the servers, I want to have an option to replace a motherboard add a 2nd CPU and keep the first one, in case I need more performance the future. Overall, I am very receptive to CPU's from alternative vendors (and now for almost a week an AMD shareholder), but my experience shows that Athlon still has a lot of challenges to overcome (and opportunities). The supporting infrastructure is still developing. But with Athlon already proven, AMD has a viable architecture for long term, and a great opportunity in the short term to capitalize on Intel weakness. Joe