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To: Steve Fancy who wrote (98789)	2/11/2000 5:55:00 PM
From: Gerald Walls	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Stocks aside, with the lower price and higher performance of the equivalent Athalon, can anyone give me a compelling reason to buy a PIII (I'm buying a new PC). While you might consider buying an Athlon, I wouldn't buy an Athalon. That would be like buying a Rolax watch... :-)

To: Steve Fancy who wrote (98789)	2/11/2000 6:04:00 PM
From: Diamond Jim	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

"with the lower price and higher performance of the equivalent Athalon" because you can spell PIII.

To: Steve Fancy who wrote (98789)	2/11/2000 7:01:00 PM
From: Road Walker	Respond to of 186894

Steve, I would go with the Athalon, they are available for Compathalon. John

To: Steve Fancy who wrote (98789)	2/11/2000 7:21:00 PM
From: Mani1	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Steve Re <<can anyone give me a compelling reason to buy a PIII (I'm buying a new PC).>> To get a name brand of Intel. Some still care about that. Athlon based computers are much better buys by all other measures. Mani

To: Steve Fancy who wrote (98789)	2/11/2000 7:38:00 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Steve, Stocks aside, with the lower price and higher performance of the equivalent Athalon, can anyone give me a compelling reason to buy a PIII (I'm buying a new PC)."... This is not a good question for the Intel thread or even the AMD thread. Best thing to do is go to a Gateway store or the Gateway website and "Select" one... Jim

To: Steve Fancy who wrote (98789)	2/12/2000 9:37:00 AM
From: jackrabbit	Respond to of 186894

>>>Stocks aside, with the lower price and higher performance of the equivalent Athalon, can anyone give me a compelling reason to buy a PIII (I'm buying a new PC).<<< Steve -- I am not a techie, but I will try to give you a partial answer to your question. 1. Intel PIII is the top brand of CPU on the market. When you buy Intel, you know you are getting a quality product. We know Intel stands behind the quality of its products; who knows what AMD would do? 2. A computer manufacturer that uses AMD products has probably cut corners in other areas to get a cheaper price for the overall system. Cheap components = worse day to day performance and possible reliability problems down the road. 3. You say that an "equivalent" Athlon has lower price and higher performance. Actually I believe that most of the benchmark tests prove that PIIIs outperform "equivalent" Athlons -- for example a PIII 750 may perform at the level of an Athlon 800 (due to on-chip cache etc.; I defer to techies here). I just made that example up, but you should check the benchmark tests which have been discussed on this board for the actual results. 4. Software developers and component manufacturers develop their products to be compatible with the dominant platform (i.e. Intel). There have already been some video card compatibility problems with Athlon systems that were discussed on this board. Is it really worth it to ignore all of these issues to save $50-100?? In my mind the answer is clear. I would rather pay a little more up front for quality, and have peace of mind over the 2-3 years I own the product. I hope some of the techies on the board will weigh in and help you with your decision. Good luck whatever you decide, John