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To: SisterMaryElephant who wrote (136713)	6/5/2001 3:11:25 PM
From: AK2004	Respond to of 186894

Steve I do not place blame on anyone for crashing system. From my personal experience my athlon is far more stable than piii. Nvidia looks like a good product but if nvidia would not deliver I will point at nvidia. To my best understanding amd athlon got far less issues and pending fixes than either pIII or p4 and we do not need to talk about itanium. Even Dell had to clarify that there was no stability issue with athlon but rather that dell did not sufficiently tested the chip. Both ibm and cpq are trying to adopt dell-like business models because it worked for dell. Unfortunately, similar to dynamic hedging, it works only if no one else is using it otherwise it would cause a crash. Amd, on another hand, is happy with market share no matter where it is coming from. Come to think of it smaller shops would not demand ibm-size discounts. one more remark about "whipping boy", if intel would occasionally revise their business deals p4 would be with ddr and far more attractive than rambus or poor excuse i845 Regards -Albert

To: SisterMaryElephant who wrote (136713)	6/5/2001 5:06:41 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

RE:"If is a big if. However, think about why IBM, CPQ or any other major player has stayed away from AMD's offerings, if they are "soooo" good?" Think about why Intel started to make it's own motherboards and chipsets. Whas it because something was inherently bad with Intel chips? AMD gives these Taiwan companies a reference design. The first thing they do is figure out how they can change it to make it cheaper...you know the rest. As far as Nvidia. I was most impressed with the performance. Reliability has yet to be determined. Jim