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To: fyodor_ who wrote (20562)	11/26/2000 5:06:31 PM
From: hmaly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Fyodor Re..We are in complete agreement here. As I have stated previously, the P4 is not the best way to go for 90% of buyers. The remaining 10% being those who either hand-optimize their code or require the bandwidth offered by the P4+i850.<<<< I agree, but that isn't what Intel is hyping. If Intel would just be halfway truthful with their claims, maybe I could believe them. And personally, any company that relies upon deception to sell things shouldn't have any customers at all. The P4 is too unbalanced of a chip to be all things to all people ; so why market it that way. Certainly the IP managers will be able to tell the difference. They won't be snowballed that easily. More importantly, they won't trust Intel anymore, and just decide for themselves which chip is better. Do I think the P4 holds as much potential as the PPro? Well, that's the question ;). I believe indications are that the P4 can achieve amazing performance right now if, and only if, the software is properly optimized. < I agree, but I also disagree in that the PIII might be able to perform just as well with all of the SSE2 optimizations with a 30% slower clock. And in the end, the Hammer series will have those optimizations plus a much higher IPC; and will be available before most of those optimizations are available. In the end the P4 will have to beat the Hammer. For now, the P4 intro. didn't seem to hurt AMD at all. Its bark was far worse than its bite. The top end performance is debateable, and AMD dominates all other desktop chips both in performance and price.