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To: tejek who wrote (80676)	5/25/2002 12:48:12 AM
From: Yousef	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 275872

Ted, Re: "Intel's Waking Nightmare: Excess Processing Power" This is just more validation that INTC has once again taken the performance crown. This issue always comes up on this thread when AMD falls behind ... Wonder why ??!! <ggg> Make It So, Yousef

To: tejek who wrote (80676)	5/26/2002 3:01:56 AM
From: wanna_bmw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Ted, Re: "a former Intel employee puts forth a premise that's not new but the fact that he worked at Intel and presumably is knowledgeable about PCs makes the premise just that more real. If there is some truth to it, both AMD and Intel could be in a world of hurt." I'll agree that over time, PC performance has slowly turned from trailing application requirements to leading them. This is not a positive trend, but the good news is that people still don't buy their computers with the sole intention of running their current generation of applications, but rather with the expectation that applications in the future will require more from their computers than the bottom of the line can deliver. Avoiding obsolescence is still something that both consumers and corporations know how to do. Obviously, some upgrade cycles are longer than others, but I'm sure that very few people out there are under the false impression that the power of their computer is all they'll need for any application they'll ever choose to run. This former employee sounds like he was so immersed with the cutting edge, that he forgot to look at things from the practical point of view of the average person (including those within the corporate IT department that deal with corporate upgrade cycles). There doesn't need to be applications today that can tax the top-of-the-line computer; there just needs to be applications in the future that can continue the trend towards higher application requirements. This former employee didn't indicate that the Intel Architecture Labs lacked the ability to deliver applications for the future - just that his particular systems seemed more than enough to handle his workload. I don't think even he knows whether his workload will change in the future, or whether the applications he uses for his workload will need greater requirements. wbmw