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To: Dan3 who wrote (127210)	2/12/2001 2:13:53 PM
From: fingolfen	Respond to of 186894

I really don't understand why you guys are so down on the P4... the more you scream about it... the larger a competitive threat to AMD's long-term bottom line it seems to be. I also disagree with your "old benchmarks are honest benchmarks." If the computing industry only cared about yesterday's technology... we'd all still be using Word Perfect 5.1 on a 486 with DOS 6.22. Fortunately the computing word continues to grow and change, and the P4 seems to deliver performance where performance actually matters. I don't know about you, but 90% of the time I'm using Word, I'm typing... My P3 600 notebook keeps up with me just fine... the "performance difference" above that is not visible... but my frame rate in Quake 3... well, that's another matter entirely! My poor old P2 350 (100MHz FSB) really starts to hiccup when I run Crimson skies at high detail 600x800... I'll grant you Intel made compromises in the P4 design... but if they had to make them, at least they made the right ones. I'm certain if there's a real competitive need (which I have not seen yet), they will enhance the design with successive generations of the core... All most programs require is a simple recompile using the Intel C++/SSE/SSE2 compiler... Any time Intel makes a change like they made with the P4... they're very good about getting compilers out for the software-writing public to use...