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To: Bill Jackson who wrote (7507)	9/4/2000 8:47:34 PM
From: TechieGuy-alt	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 275872

All, Well it looks like Sharky's excuses are down to the last one. Check out the excuses that he makes defending his recommendation of a 1G P-III. What was really interesting to me was the guilt trip quite evident along with the recommendation: From sharkyextreme.com " Two central concerns in a business PC are reliability and stability. While AMD has made tremendous inroads in both areas, they have struggled recently with their move to socket-based processors. While we have only seen a small sampling of AMD's socket based CPUs, we have seen and heard of far too many Athlon Thunderbird processors and KT133 motherboards dying. Socketed CPUs are inherently less durable than slot packaged CPUs due to having less protective packaging, something AMD has been learning the hard way. So, for our High-End Business PC Buyer's Guide's processor, we are recommending the Intel Pentium III 1GHz. We know this is a controversial move, but we're looking at this from the viewpoint of computer consultants and corporate IT. The fact of the matter is that, if you recommend an Intel solution and it fails, few will question your recommendation. But if you recommend an AMD solution and it fails, many people would question your recommendation and you could easily lose face or business, and possibly your job. To paraphrase what an IT consultant once said to me, unless you have a compelling reason to recommend something other than Intel, you just cannot take the gamble of recommending something else. With Intel and AMD running neck and neck on performance, you cannot recommend an AMD as the fastest solution. And though AMD has a price lead of a few hundred dollars, the cost of the CPU is only a fraction of the total system cost, and the total system cost is only a fraction of the total support cost, so the price difference becomes insignificant to most business situations. AMD's strength in the consumer market is not very compelling in the business market. " TG