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To: milo_morai who wrote (62022)	11/3/2001 2:10:53 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 275872

Milo and others, a Best Buy story from yours truly. One day, I decided to see how "QuantiSpeed" would be sold at a retail outlet like Best Buy. So I asked one of the sales reps there what the "QuantiSpeed" meant in the name "Athlon XP with QuantiSpeed architecture." He said that the "QuantiSpeed" allows programs to load faster and the system to run smoother. In other words, he had no clue that "QuantiSpeed" improves Athlon performance just as much as "NetBurst" improves Internet performance for Pentium 4. To be fair in this sad story, I did ask him about a Pentium 4 system and how that compared. He said that because it ran at 1.8 GHz (the Athlon XP system ran at 1.53 GHz), the P4 system was faster. Of course, the P4 system had SDRAM, but the sales rep didn't seem to notice. That told me two things: 1) Best Buy sales reps don't know jack. 2) Clock speed is still used as a measure of performance, despite the "QuantiSpeed" nonsense. Tenchusatsu