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To: Elmer who wrote (104380)	6/13/2000 12:41:00 AM
From: Joe NYC	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Elmer, Yes Jozef we all saw that but it was done with a non production motherboard, a non production version of DirectX and graphics drivers that aren't available. Gee, you make it sound like it is unusual that the version 1.0 driver / BIOS will soon be replaced with Version 1.01 and 1.01a etc. These will be on the market within weeks. Microsoft seems to be releasing the new versions of Direct X on monthly basis. I can't help but think that if Intel came out with phoney benchmarks on unavailable hardware running unavailable drivers and operating system components compared to an AMD system that Intel selected and ran, you'd be less than enthusiastic. Depends of how it is done. After all this time on the market, there was enough time for the driver and supporting hardware to get straightened out for Coppermine Piii. If you look at the fine print, you will see that the 1 GHz Pentium system with RDRAM is Dell Dimension XPS B system. It is one of the very few models that are actually available with 1 GHz Piii. What system should have AMD selected? Isn't Dell 1 GHz system a showcase of Intel technology. It seems to be the very system Intel sends for evaluations to Magazines. Looking closer, it seems that AMD just took Dell system, and used all the components of that system, just replacing motherboard, CPU and RAM. In summary, AMD picked stuff that is either available now, or is about to be released. This differs greatly from writing a custom Spec compiler as Intel did (to put up some phony Spec benchmarks), which will never be used in any commercial applications. In day to day commercial applications, Coppermine seems to be out-gunned clock per clock, Athlon is available at higher clock speeds, and it is more affordable. Sounds like a recipe for losing market share big way - unit wise and revenue wise. Joe