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To: Milan Shah who wrote (53298)	8/30/2001 8:08:26 PM
From: Road Walker	Respond to of 275872

Milan, From a marketing perspective, it's a disaster. Everybody has spent their life buying products based on numbers from manufacturers that they trust. The weight of a bag of vegetables, the octane of gas, the mg. in a medicine... It would be OK for AMD to say in their promotional material that "we think this 1.6 performs like an Intel 1.8". But to label it as a 1.8 is deceptive. AMD will be found out. And the consumer will be pissed. And I don't blame them. John

To: Milan Shah who wrote (53298)	8/31/2001 11:23:15 AM
From: pgerassi	Respond to of 275872

Dear Milan: If the customer check the benches, it would be a major coup for AMD. What AMD is doing, by being conservative, is that when the customer checks the benches, The Athlon XP 2000+ out runs a P4 2G in all but, a few benches. Customers after a while, will ask for mutually agreed upon benchmarks administered by a truly independent third party based on open standards. Sort of like SAE or IEEE. They will ask that the benchmarks used can be publically available for them to try. And that is a good thing for everyone but, those truly dishonest. Pete