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To: dhellman who wrote (19984)	11/21/2000 7:47:49 AM
From: DRBES	Respond to of 275872

re: "The Pentium 4, which was officially launched Monday, is Intel's fastest chip yet. The processor will make games look more realistic, enable faster video playback and editing and speed up things such as downloading music and video encoding." And it is slower at standard business applications than either the peEweEiiI or, markedly so, than the 1.2 Gig Athlon. And this processor is aimed at WHAT?...inteL's stronghold...the business segment? HHHHHHMMMMMM????? Patient Regards, DARBES

To: dhellman who wrote (19984)	11/21/2000 9:06:50 AM
From: Gopher Broke	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 275872

Early Shipments of Intel Pentium 4 Chips Included Wrong Piece of Software Code. The updated version, correcting glitches in the Pentium 4 chip, was forwarded to Intel's customers so they could replace the BIOS before sending systems to their end-users. ROTFLMAO! Why do Intel think they have to use such weasel words, blaming a BIOS bug on a shipping error. Sometimes they are their own worst enemy. Why didn't they just admit that they needed to patch the BIOS to fix a last-minute bug? These things happen with a new product. What should not happen is a company with Intel's experience not knowing what version of BIOS they were shipping with the P4. This latest excuse suggests they don't have control of their operation and "unprofessional" is the word that now springs to my mind. I am also suspicious about what has been changed. Do we know what Intel were trying to fix and whether it fixed it? Was it a boot problem? To what extent can a BIOS patch mask a processor problem?