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To: niceguy767 who wrote (10429)9/27/2000 4:49:39 PM
From: MaverickRead Replies (1) | Respond to of 275872
 
Large 1GHz Tbird design win in Germany:Vobis sets on the AMD horse

Vobis sets on the AMD horse
[Vobis is a BIG PC-House in Germany]
translator.go.com

For those who can read German:
heise.de

The numbers of the iron Intel faithful ones light itself further: Also Vobis shortly offers a complete computer with AMD Athlon processor. Vobis wants to recover " the convinced AMD fans as customers ": Since the K6-Prozessor, thus approximately since 1997, the computer chain did not have no more AMD chip in the program.

But at the high performance and available Athlon obviously however no way leads past. Starting from " at the end of September " should be to have 64 MByte RAM, TNT2-Grafikkarte and 20-GByte-Festplatte, with which Windows 98 and the Works Suite 2000 are before-installed by Microsoft according to specification of Vobis for 1999 Marks a system with gigahertz Athlon. More exact details of the configuration are not well-known yet.

With Vobis AMD could get a further large provider, who set so far exclusively on Intel, in the boat. In the last weeks with Micron in the USA and the British Tiny still two had for the first time announced other large PC dealers AMD systems. (ciw/ c't)