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To: Elmer who wrote (119598)	11/29/2000 4:52:55 PM
From: sb999	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

New P4 benchmarks: tomshardware.com

To: Elmer who wrote (119598)	11/29/2000 5:00:28 PM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Elmer, Looks like Intel is up their usual tricks of rushing products to market: The retailer has chosen not to sell Pentium 4 PCs from Hewlett-Packard Co. in stores, due to the bug with Pentium 4 that cropped up last week. Intel discovered the bug after some PC makers had already shipped PCs containing the chip to retailers -- as was the case with Hewlett-Packard and Best Buy. Intel updated the BIOS and it made it the responsibility of the PC makers or the retailers to install the fix in every Pentium 4 PC. Instead of performing the required BIOS upgrade in its stores, Best Buy decided to send its entire Pentium 4 Pavilion inventory back to HP to perform the fix. "We are not selling Pentium 4 at this time, due to the (BIOS) issue," said Best Buy spokesman Jim McManus. zdii.com The "BIOS issue" means (hopefully) masking a functional bug with a BIOS tweak. At least we know what Jim McMann(i)s does for a living now. ;^)) Scumbria