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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (147512)	11/12/2001 2:10:05 PM
From: Paul Engel	Respond to of 186894

Ban Ban McMannis - HP Going with Intel - AGAIN !!! "The HP Pavilion 9995 home PC sports the Intel® Pentium(TM) 4 2.0 Ghz processor, 512 MB RAM and is equipped to handle high resource tasks such as video editing, gaming or other multimedia activities. " Ban Ban - oh, Bam Bam one !!! Don't forget to repost this on the AMDroid Mani HYPOCRITE Thread. biz.yahoo.com Monday November 12, 2:02 pm Eastern Time Press Release SOURCE: Hewlett-Packard HP Introduces World's First Retail PC with DVD+RW Technology for Easy DVD Recording PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 12, 2001--Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE:HWP - news) today announced a new home PC featuring HP's new DVD+RW drive. The HP Pavilion 9995 home PC is the first PC on store shelves nationwide with DVD+RW technology. The home PC includes the HP dvd100i DVD+RW drive and has an estimated U.S. retail price of $1,999(1). The DVD+RW format offers ease-of-use, higher DVD recording speeds than other formats and optimal compatibility. The HP dvd100i drive allows consumers to create custom CD and DVD discs, which offer seven times the storage capacity of CD-R/RW discs. The DVD+RW multimedia drive allows consumers to record their own home movies to DVD, back up personal data from their hard drive, burn and mix their own music to CD and transfer VHS tapes to DVD for longer preservation. The easy-to-use software included with the drive allows consumers to transfer digital or analog video, using an analog capture card, from a camcorder or VHS tape and immediately view the scenes on DVD. The HP Pavilion 9995 home PC sports the Intel® Pentium(TM) 4 2.0 Ghz processor, 512 MB RAM and is equipped to handle high resource tasks such as video editing, gaming or other multimedia activities. The 80 GB hard disk drive stores numerous large digital files easily, while the added stability provided by Microsoft® Windows® XP allows consumers to easily navigate their PC without worry. ``Talking with customers over the last year has shown us that video editing is a booming trend in home PC use,'' said Rob Wait, worldwide business manager, HP Consumer Business Organization. ``With DVD+RW, our customers have the best tools to easily edit and share home videos, back up important information and create music CDs - all from the same drive.'' The HP Pavilion 9995 home PC includes the following features: Intel Pentium 4 2.0 GHz processor; 512 MB SDRAM; 80 GB Ultra DMA hard-disk drive; HP dvd100i DVD+RW drive (2.4x/8x/12x/10x/32x) 2.4x DVD (re-write), 8x DVD (read), 12x CD-R (write), 10x CD-RW (re-write), 32x CD (read) speeds; 16x DVD-ROM drive; One IEEE 1394, one serial and two USB front access ports, with multiple IEEE 1394 and USB ports on back of chassis; NVIDIA GeForce2 MX400 graphics card with 64 MB RDRAM memory; Estimated U.S. retail price: $1,999(1). The HP Pavilion 9995 home PC is expected to be available Nov. 18 at hpshopping.com and HP's retail kiosks as well as consumer electronics and computer superstores nationwide. Additionally, the drive can be configured into a customized PC through HP's build-to-order program, also at hpshopping.com. About HP Hewlett-Packard Company -- a leading global provider of computing and imaging solutions and services -- is focused on making technology and its benefits accessible to all. HP had total revenue from continuing operations of $48.8 billion in its 2000 fiscal year. Information about HP and its products can be found on the World Wide Web at hp.com. Note: (1)Actual prices may vary. Intel and Pentium are U.S. registered trademarks of Intel Corp. Microsoft is a U.S. registered trademark of Microsoft Corp. This news release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks, uncertainties and assumptions. All statements other than statements of historical fact are statements that could be deemed forward-looking statements. Risks, uncertainties and assumptions include the possibility that the market for the sale of certain products and services may not develop as expected; that development of these products and services may not proceed as planned; and other risks that are described from time to time in HP's Securities and Exchange Commission reports, including but not limited to the annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended Oct. 31, 2000, and subsequently filed reports. If any of these risks or uncertainties materializes or any of these assumptions proves incorrect, HP's results could differ materially from HP's expectations in these statements. HP does not intend to update these forward-looking statements. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contact: HP Diane Roncal, 408/425-1246 diane_roncal@hp.com or Porter Novelli for HP Simmi Singh, 206/770-7015 simmi.singh@pnicg.com Email this story - Most-emailed articles - Most-viewed articles --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

To: Jim McMannis who wrote (147512)	11/12/2001 3:11:14 PM
From: Tony Viola	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Jim, customers or OEMs finding bugs in Itaniums proves they are actually being bought, and used with serious software. If you had any experience with large systems, like I do, you'd know that it's impossible to find all the bugs in chips or systems of this magnitude before shipments start. That's because there are a limitless number of possible customer configurations out there, with huge I/O farms, that can expose bugs orders of magnitude tougher to find than a needle in a haystack. All of these configurations cannot possibly be modeled by Intel or the OEMs in their design verification centers. I also know, based on experience, that these kinds of problems usually end up to be fixable with a microcode patch, usually downloadable from the OEM's website. Not saying these are not taken seriously, they absolutely are, and the best verification engineers, as well as upper management to do the talking, will fly off to the customer to try to make things right. So, I'm betting right now that Sledgehammer has no customer found bugs until at least EOY-2003, actually, probably not ever, and that's not because of any wonderful design capability possessed by Dirk and his boys. Tony