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To: Harry Landsiedel who wrote (144977)	10/9/2001 10:59:19 PM
From: The Duke of URL©	Respond to of 186894

Oh what a tangled web[site] we weave, when first we practise to deceive... and like that: 213.219.40.69 ...That follows a story we wrote at the weekend in which NECX was listing a 1.8GHz AthlonMP processor on their site, and responded to a readers' inquiry by saying yes indeedy, that is a genuine 1.8GHz part. (See Is an AMD 1.8GHz Athlon MP a goer?). NECX has now pulled the page and the reference - without explanation of course -- and we suspect that the part that dare not speak its name was an Athlon XP 1800, that is to say a 1.53GHz Athlon. For let us call a spade a spade, eh Jerry? We talked to someone from AMD and he said: "We don't have a... IF EVEN VENDORS are getting their knickers in a twist about whether an Athlon 1800 is a 1.8GHz Athlon, what chance Mr or Ms Newtocomputers, we ask .