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To: Mihaela who wrote (39382)	4/7/2000 3:55:00 PM
From: blake_paterson	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 93625

Mihaela: I'm on a 25,000 mile road trip right now and my download capability sucks...rebuffers every 2 - 3 seconds of play time. Finally shut it off after 5 minutes. Care to share with us what the final word was on the comparisons.. Also, I'm having a jet lag mental melt down.. can't remember what our price pattern was with the several days before the last 2 earnings... anybody remember.. BP

To: Mihaela who wrote (39382)	4/7/2000 4:56:00 PM
From: Jdaasoc	Respond to of 93625

mihaela: I like the video after hours quote 251 john

To: Mihaela who wrote (39382)	4/8/2000 1:15:00 PM
From: Jdaasoc	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

Mihaela: I just listened to commentary on video. It seems that major benefit is increased disk I/O speed. I have used Photoshop over the last 8-9 years and I know it is a memory hog. You need a minimum of 3-4 times the total memory to the size of the image you are manipulating. For example an 8 by 10 inch 300 dpi color image is about 24 MB uncompressed in system memory. Most professional production Photoshop systems today are on the MAC side with 512 or 1GB of total memory. I don't want to even get into the Mac/PC debate here. However, PC users are using Photoshop with 256 or 512 MB RAM currently with some speed benefits over 128 MB RAM. I think that this video is just a limited attempt to prove that Intel's most affordable choice of RDRAM currently, 820 chipset mono processor platform, is on the right track performance wise and it just takes time for this rationale to become more apparent. Until I see more complete comparisons with Photoshop, I can only assume that higher overall memory bandwidth demands from 2nd microprocessors, higher speed microprocessors, faster ATA/100 or U160 SCSI hard drives, faster network throughput and operating systems that take advantage of increased speed of I/O could only improve the advantage of RDRAM over SDRAM. john