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To: dougSF30 who wrote (200772)	6/6/2006 10:47:33 PM
From: DRBES	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

...performance lead (or at least parity) was necessary.... perhaps not...and perhaps a much more level playing field is sufficient

To: dougSF30 who wrote (200772)	6/6/2006 11:08:16 PM
From: dramjoe7	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Seems like you vastly underestimate the importance and impact of the lawsuit. You think HP and others are going to revert back to the days when Intel oh, never mind...

To: dougSF30 who wrote (200772)	6/7/2006 7:32:49 AM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Re: Didn't we cover this already? LOL!! "We" being you talking to yourself? The past 6 years have proven that a perceptible but moderate performance advantage (20% to 30%) can be helpful, but is not as helpful as a clock speed advantage. An imperceptible performance advantage (less than 20% - like NGA has) does very little, and a very noticeable performance disadvantage (greater than 50% - like the levels of Via and Transmeta CPUs) can be a significant problem. We've also learned that desktop chips that have a greater than 50 watt disadvantage have problems. A small power difference even in mobile chips doesn't seem to matter. Note that Turion / Mobile Athlon has been gaining share despite a slight disadvantage in power use relative to Pentium M / Core. We have proof of the effects slight differences in performance and power use that contradicts your conclusions.