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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jim McMannis who wrote (111376)	5/17/2000 7:02:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575025

Jim, <on you friends book PC, how does the picture look on a TV, screen? Isn't this essentially an X-box in training?> He's got a 19" monitor, and the picture looks all right, almost as good as the picture on my 21" monitor at work. He hasn't tried connecting it to his TV yet. Oh, and he put in a DVD-ROM drive on his Book PC. Saving Private Ryan looks great. Never thought that movie could still have an effect on me outside of the theatre, even on a 19" monitor. <there is a K6-2 version of the same computer. Up to a K6-2-550. Probably a better deal since the K6-2-550 go for a lot less than the slower Celeron 500s.> Probably to the average consumer, K6-2 at 550 MHz seems faster than a Celeron 500. But to savvy customers like myself, Celeron surpassed K6-2 a long time ago, and you'd have a hard time convincing me that K6-2 at 550 MHz is a stronger performer than Celeron at 500 MHz. I wonder how long it will take before Spitfire (er, I mean Duron) can be shoehorned into the Book PC form-factor. You can bet, however, that Timna will instantly make it into the Book PC at its release (provided Intel doesn't have supply problems once again). As for the "X-Box in training," well, it all depends on the software. Win98 still isn't user-friendly enough to compete against the consoles coming from Sony, Sega, and Nintendo. Sure, tech-savvy consumers can make the Book PC double as a set-top box, but the software is still a LONG way off from being as easy to use as a VCR or a Playstation. Tenchusatsu