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To: jim kelley who wrote (39792)	4/13/2000 10:17:00 AM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

Jim, What the buyer sees is that the DELL 866 is faster than an Athlon 1GHZ. He does not care to analyze why AMD can not put an on board cache. Get it? In the next few days or weeks, we will see benchmarks of Thunderbird with onboard L2, an possibly DDR. What will buyers see then? Scumbria

To: jim kelley who wrote (39792)	4/13/2000 11:09:00 AM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 93625

RE:"What the buyer sees is that the DELL 866 is faster than an Athlon 1GHZ. He does not care to analyze why AMD can not put an on board cache. Get it?" I believe that what the consumer sees is that 1000 MHz is larger than 866 Mhz... Benchmarks are way down the list for most consumers when doing comparison shopping. Benchmarks are too easily manipulated by optimizing compilers and optimizing the benchmark to show the desired result. Jim

To: jim kelley who wrote (39792)	4/13/2000 11:43:00 AM
From: Ali Chen	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 93625

Jim, <What the buyer sees is that the DELL 866 is faster than an Athlon 1GHZ. He does not care to analyze why AMD can not put an on board cache. Get it?> I got it, but I am not sure about you. It is good for Dell that they make faster computers than Gateway, and end buyers may not be able to analyze why. But you are not the end buyer. You are presumably an investor, and you should do some analysis. And the analysis shows that it would be an apparent mistake to attribute Dell's performance advantage entirely to the use of RDRAM. This may lead to wrong investment decision. :)