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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (57862)	10/9/2001 10:15:17 AM
From: peter_luc	Respond to of 275872

Jim, "How about that windows media encoding 7 fraud where it only turns on SSE if the chip has the "GenuineIntel" code?" Micorsoft is to blame also in another sense: It has been apparent from the very beginning that the SSE-optimizations give an enormous performance boost to the Windows Media Encoder. Why did Microsoft not include 3DNow!-optimizations as well? Was it too difficult for them? Is Microsoft too small a company with too limited resources to make this little additional effort? Or have they been paid by Intel to not support 3DNow? Are they so poor that they just had to accept the money from Intel, regardless of blatantly putting AMD at a disadvantage? Shall wee see the same game now with "Windows XP with Pentium 4 optimizations"? We should ask Microsoft about the reason for their one-sidedness! Peter

To: Jim McMannis who wrote (57862)	10/9/2001 10:45:25 AM
From: Gopher Broke	Respond to of 275872

I rate AMD an A+ in NOT rating Athlon relative to P4. If they had done that then we would be having endless arguments about whether the number was correct or not. As it is they have come up with a rating scheme that - is not P4 releated (although consumers will use it for this :^) and so cannot be shot down with any particular benchmark - is conservative and so cannot be criticised for being a fabrication to make up for performance deficiencies - will allow them to absolutely blow P4 away when applied to dual core systems.