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To: Joey Smith who wrote (133153)	4/23/2001 12:47:18 AM
From: Cirruslvr	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Joey - RE: ""We tested the 1.7GHz Pentium 4 and it clearly does bring performance to the party," Feibus said." Joey, the P4's performance doesn't mean much to overall sales. As Scumbria has said, Willamette is an unbalanced processor, so its performance alone won't win over many hearts. But now that Intel has cut P4 prices practically in half, P4 sales should go up significantly, not because it can now compete with the 1.33GHz Athlon. If Intel continues to keep P4 prices this low when Northwood (.13 P4) with SDR/DDR comes out AMD will be backed into a corner they haven't been in in a couple of years...

To: Joey Smith who wrote (133153)	4/23/2001 2:15:29 AM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 186894

Joey, from the article you posted: "For the vast majority of us, you don't need this kind of performance," commented Mike Feibus, a principal analyst at Mercury Research. Why does absolutely no one make statements like this whenever AMD introduces their latest-n-greatest? Meanwhile, there's always someone who says that kind of statement every time Intel introduces a new high-end processor. I even remember when the Pentium III was introduced at 500 MHz. Most people wondered whether anyone would ever need that kind of performance. Now you can't even buy a new $600 computer at a slower speed than that. Tenchusatsu