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To: MONACO who wrote (100440)	3/7/2000 8:24:00 AM
From: rudedog	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 186894

Monaco - re: is memory so tight that CPQ is configuring this "super 1G Athlon machine" with only 128 SDRAM? The presario line is a Consumer product. The consumer division does not offer Win2K as an OS choice (for a lot of good reasons - Win2K does not support a lot of the stuff consumers use both in hardware and software) - they use Win98 and will follow with Millennium. Wouldn't you want more 256 or 512? Win98 - like all of its previous iterations back to DOS - does not support virtual memory - memory management is a fairly crude process swap model. There is no significant benefit to running more than about 64M and 128M is surely overkill. You can find lots of research showing that there is almost no performance boost in a Win2K system when adding memory above 64M... If you have the OS and "visible" apps loaded in RAM, you are "optimized"... on the other hand, Win2K runs faster and faster the more memory it has, as it is a fully virtual model. And can these Athlons' be configured with RAMBUS Memory at all? There are NO CPQ products which support RAMBUS - nothing, nix, nada - and none in the pipeline. Given CPQ's performance numbers - they currently hold the performance lead in most categories for IA32 architecture - I doubt that will change any time soon. I take it you are a RAMBUS fan?? Most important for this discussion is that CPQ uses Intel exclusively for all of their commercial products - servers, workstations, desktops, laptops - so whenever you are looking at a CPQ AMD-based product you are looking at a consumer product running Win98. Understanding that will help make sense out of the design choices CPQ makes.