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To: Cirruslvr who wrote (104907)	6/26/2000 6:08:00 PM
From: Tony Viola	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Cirrus, >I think you would prefer Duron to appear vaporous for some time. Have you seen the benchmarks? It completely blows away the Celeron. Duron is a MUCH better low-end processor. Good time to use the old "Megahertz sells" slogan. Who cares about specints or specpfs for low end? Johnny and Katy will much prefer one of these cool colors to boring boxed AMD's! Bada Bing! athome.compaq.com p.s., up to and including 700 MHz Celerons coming soon from Compaq. Durons?

To: Cirruslvr who wrote (104907)	6/26/2000 7:17:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Cirrus, <I think you would prefer Duron to appear vaporous for some time. Have you seen the benchmarks?> Yes, I've seen the benchmarks. Duron is a compelling low-end solution in terms of performance, but lack of good chipsets and motherboards remains a big problem. Also, Intel has the 810/815E chipsets which make very excellent platforms for the low-end (despite the FUD spread by web sites who value 3D performance much more than buyers in this price segment). However, Duron has a very good chance of overshadowing current Celeronmine-based PCs later on (especially once Via integrates Savage4 graphics into their Duron chipsets). Hopefully before then, Intel will release Willamette and Timna and drive Pentium III (Coppermine-256) down into Duron's market segments. Tenchusatsu