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To: Road Walker who wrote (57203)	10/4/2001 6:14:01 PM
From: Mary Cluney	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 275872

John, <<<But the consumer might enjoy a set of benchmarks that were simple, clear, and actually said something about the product they were about to purchase.>>> I don't think that can happen even if they all agree to try. There are just too many variables. If all you wanted to do on your computer was to play Quake III in some esoteric mode, the program may utilize some performance characteristics of one processor that is different than some program that does video editing and utiliezs the performance characteristics of another processor. Voice to text, database intensive applications, and so on - may require different capabilities of the entire computer or system. In any case, that is what keeps all those writers, editors, and PR specialists at all those PC magazines employed. Each week, or month, dozens of articles appear in PC magazines compaing one systme to another. Mary

To: Road Walker who wrote (57203)	10/4/2001 7:03:05 PM
From: bacchus_ii	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

RE:"If all the PC makers could get together and establish a specific set of complete system benchmarks, with independent testing, then that would be good for the consumer. " Isn't what anand try to do .. 3/3 are Amd system tho. Buyer's Guide: Value Systems - August 2001 anandtech.com Gottfried

To: Road Walker who wrote (57203)	10/4/2001 8:43:14 PM
From: fyodor_	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

John: If all the PC makers could get together and establish a specific set of complete system benchmarks, with independent testing, then that would be good for the consumer. The end user could get a clear picture of relative performance, for the type of stuff they intend to do. &#133 But the consumer might enjoy a set of benchmarks that were simple, clear, and actually said something about the product they were about to purchase. Maybe Microsoft would be interested in doing something like this at some point? I don't know if you'd call them "independent" as such, of course&#133 It might give a new "boost" to the next round of OS upgrades, if Microsoft was able to present a higher scores in the standard benchmarks. (of course, that would require actually making the OS faster). -fyo