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To: Tony Viola who wrote (61534)	11/1/2001 5:31:39 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 275872

Even if AMD is as good as Intel in areas like stability, their reputation is not. Expected flame sources: university people, if we have any; any and all AMD backers. tont, you'll get no flames from me. I agree that AMD's reputation for stability is not as high as Intel's. I think AMD's reputation is getting better, and I think if you have a good motherboard and the right drivers Athlons are every bit as reliable as P4s, but Intel is the big brand name. If AMD has been as good for a year or two that isn't enough to change some people's opinions. Tim

To: Tony Viola who wrote (61534)	11/1/2001 8:03:40 PM
From: Dan3	Respond to of 275872

RE: instability, some folks put up with it more than others It's amazing that Intel can sell anything to corporations since we've seen confirmed data corruption from PIII 1.13GHZ, Xeon 900MHX, 810 chipset with MTH, 820 chipset 3 RIMM, and now reports that Itanium has joined Intel's long list of defective but shipping CPU designs. Maybe you guys should be a little more worried about $5,000 to $100,000 production systems from Intel quietly corrupting data than Tom managing to lock up his test PC by entering wrong information into the bios.