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To: Dan3 who wrote (52790)	8/28/2001 6:43:49 PM
From: THE WATSONYOUTH	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Re: a 1.4GHz Athlon is on par with a 1.8GHz P4... 1.5GHz Palomino to reach performance parity with the 2GHz P4 Given that a 1.5 Palomino is 20% to 25% faster than a 1.4 Thunderbird, the above two statements contradict each other, don't they? Quite possibly. I was going to initially say that the 1.5GHz Palomino will be faster overall but prefer to wait for the actual benchmarks. Much more disturbing to me is the apparent arbitrary and one sided manner in which some of these benchmarks are devised. I think AMD should be also be educating the public into how these benchmarks are devised. From what I gather on these threads, the process is less than non partial and can have dramatic effects on the resulting numbers. It would seem to me that if the process is as one sided and unfair as it appears to be on the surface, it should be straight forward to expose these techniques. A very public, fair, and substantiated expose would be very bad publicity for Intel. And...despite anything Intel may say or spin, if done fairly and well, the general public will know whether it's being conned or not. THE WATSONYOUTH