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To: Joey Smith who wrote (144349)	9/28/2001 1:36:32 PM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Joey, re: That's very funny...AMD warning OEMs what to do... I keep wondering why any OEM would go along with this ruse. Their bread and butter is getting folks to upgrade because of the processor speed. The OEM's obviously decide what goes on the packaging, and the retailers decide what goes on the point of purchase signage. If they decide they have to list real MHz, for fear of consumer lawsuits and the attendant publicity, what does AMD look like? What happens when Joe Consumer tells his pal he just bought a 1800 MHz AMD computer, and his buddy say's "you fell for the AMD MHz scam? Ha ha ha". John

To: Joey Smith who wrote (144349)	9/29/2001 3:37:19 PM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Re: That's very funny...AMD warning OEMs what to do...Intel/OEMS/the market rags will have a field day with this.. Dream on. Intel is screwed. P4 performance, especially the "latest and greatest" systems with 845 and SDRAM have horrible performance. Any attention brought to the issue will devastate Intel sales and reputation. I think the very conservative nature of AMD's ratings are a sort of booby trap to try to get Intel spend enough on advertising the issue so that consumers will investigate the question. AMD can't afford enough advertising to make it an issue, but Intel can. Jerry is saying, "go ahead, advertise it and make my day."