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To: Paul Engel who wrote (119197)	11/25/2000 4:38:26 PM
From: deibutfeif	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Paul, confirmation wrt 2. They are usually cheap - and they want CHEAP (and they get it). Message 14878611 HSN - for the discerning customer ;^) ~dbf

To: Paul Engel who wrote (119197)	11/26/2000 5:44:34 AM
From: dybdahl	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

I live in Europe, and I see more and more Intel-only shops having an AMD Athlon computer on the front page on their product catalogs. And Toms Hardware really does have influence over here. He just release a new revision of his Benchmark tests with input from codec engineers and Intel engineers. It is worth reading. The good thing about Toms hardware is that all the tests are reproducible, which means scientific correct, and I would have chosen approximately the same tests when deciding which processors to buy. AMD has always been better value for the money with Intel representing high quality, high prices. Intel has lost pretty much credibility in quality with their Pentium bug, motherboard problems and Pentium 3 redrawal. So today, Intel is low quality, low speed, high prices, and AMD is high speed, high quality and low prices. The Pentium 4 and the Itanium are meant to change this, but Pentium 4 doesn't deliver better speeds, yet, on the software most PCs use. The cheapest Pentium 4 1.4GHz computer costs the double of an Athlon 1.1 GHz over here, and is slower. As the benchmarks show, Pentium 4 is only interesting, when you: 1) Play the game Quake3 and want more than 100 frames per second. 2) Want to make your own DVD publishing company. 3) Run some software that is Pentium 4 optimized, like "Microsoft Windows 2002" or "Red Hat Linux 8.0". 4) Just want to have the best Intel processor and don't want to buy AMD because it's AMD.