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To: Scumbria who wrote (119491)	11/29/2000 2:03:51 AM
From: The Duke of URL©	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

This may sound really wrong, and I'm just noodling here and I really don't know, but I betcha Intel marketing does, but most corporations are now running overclocked CeleronAs and overclocked PIIs. They work fine, and are plenty fast on most office applications. PIIIs are faster and more reliable and certainly provide an upgrade path for any running P1s and for small network servers, are a must unless you spend a 100 bucks for a Linksys router, or 250 for a router/hub combo. Most of us only have 550Mhz fingers, anyway. But if VPNs are going to be the network paradigm, 1000Mhz processor speed will not be the bottleneck at .5Mbps data transfer rate. So the P4 starts at 1.4Ghz but has headroom but has much more emphasis on data translation. My guess is that the "internet terminal" market is about 3 times larger, at the present time on an annual basis than the corporate replacement market, and if the economy tanks, it will be even larger. Larger server needs are filled by SMP. Data retrieval, by Xeons, and IA64. The old IBM RAS, and a little bit of rock and roll for the gamers. And a little Boom, boom for the doom, doom. BH, WDIK.

To: Scumbria who wrote (119491)	11/29/2000 3:45:21 AM
From: Tenchusatsu	Respond to of 186894

Scumbria, <What do you think about the PC Magazine P4 review, which said that "Anyone in need of the latest and greatest in typical business and home applications would be better off putting their money on an Athlon or PIII system"> Funny how the same article also said, "The Pentium 4 would make a much more compelling platform as a workstation system running Windows 2000 and processor-intensive applications (involving integer and especially floating point code), or as a Web-development system creating streaming content." Gee, why wasn't Athlon recommended here? Ah, but who wants to sell to a market that would pay top dollar for these kinds of systems anyways? Tenchusatsu