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To: Road Walker who wrote (145556)	10/17/2001 4:41:26 PM
From: GVTucker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Well, actually, a consumer that is fooled by this marketing strategy probably would not notice what the relative speed of the processor was. Still, I find this truly comical. I honestly thought that this whole AMD quantispeed marketing program was a cruel joke made up by Intellibees when I first heard about it. This is like QuantiSpeed New Coke it's so bad.

To: Road Walker who wrote (145556)	10/17/2001 4:48:01 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

JF, I'm afraid the problem is deeper than that. Performance just doesn't sell like it used to. Like Kash mentioned on the Mod thread, if a 3.0 GHz PC were to become available tomorrow, it would not sell for much more than the existing 2.0 GHz PC. Funny how AMD is trying to come up with arbitrary performance numbers at a time when performance only matters to those suffering from "Hot Rod" syndrome. And the hotrodders already know the real story behind clock speed, "quantispeed," and performance, so AMD's marketing stunt is pointless to begin with. Tenchusatsu