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To: AJ Berger who wrote (50018)	8/6/2001 10:17:12 AM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 275872

"Also, has anyone actually seen AMD's new power conserving Notebook chips in a model that is actually being sold as of yet?" Uh, yes. Almost everywhere. I was in Sam's over the weekend, and they had a couple of models on display. They was one guy mooning over a 1GHz A4 from HP for $1999. Looked like a nice machine.

To: AJ Berger who wrote (50018)	8/6/2001 10:40:21 AM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 275872

Re: Also, has anyone actually seen AMD's new power conserving Notebook chips in a model that is actually being sold as of yet? Anyone who's shopped at Best Buy, CompUSA, Circuit City, Sam's, etc. has seen them. But has anyone ever actually seen a PIII-M (tualatin notebook?) Our internal tests show an Athlon 1.3 equivalent to a P5 1.7 and web tests I've seen indicate Athlon 4 is 20% faster, clock for clock, than Athlon. So a 1.5GHZ Athlon 4 (which will be out when around the time P4 2GHZ is in out) will be as fast as a 2.15GHZ P4. P4 on single channel SDRAM instead of dual channel RDRAM will bring costs down but will bring performance down with it. A 1.5GHZ P4 on SDRAM tested against a 1.5GHZ A4 on DDR is going to look pretty bad - maybe bad enough to kill off any appeal P4 might have had for anyone, anywhere. Remember the cachless Celeron's? They couldn't give them away.