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To: Road Walker who wrote (153582)1/3/2002 1:43:57 PM
From: Paul Engel  Respond to of 186894
 
John - Re: "It's interesting that AMD's retail vanishing act coincided almost exactly with their ModelHurtz scheme. As I guessed at the time, OEM's and retailers probably didn't want to confuse and deceive the consumer."

One explanation is that OEMs realized that AMD's roadmap could not compete with Intel's as far as process development and processor speed - ergo, AMD's switch to phony modelhurtz ratings.

They then opted for more Intel CPUs - realizing that AMD was headed 90 mph down a dead end street.

Paul



To: Road Walker who wrote (153582)1/3/2002 1:46:35 PM
From: fingolfen  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 186894
 
It's interesting that AMD's retail vanishing act coincided almost exactly with their ModelHurtz scheme. As I guessed at the time, OEM's and retailers probably didn't want to confuse and deceive the consumer.

I finally saw my first Athlon XP system at best buy on December 31st.

It was an 1800+ system... first line of the system features indicated that the processor ran at 1.53GHz. Looks like the OEM's are really quite leery of the "return of PR."


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