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To: Joe NYC who wrote (25546)	11/6/1997 12:46:00 AM
From: StockMan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578699

Joe, Re -- Benchmarks and link. Remember its a cyrix link. The last benchmark I saw by pc mag/pc week showed that 133Mhz MediaGX = 75 Mhz pentium. The MediaGX uses an old 586 core.. (Thats from the 486 days). They only cranked up the clock speed. No doubt a 133Mhz will perform the equivalent of a pentium 75. That does not make it a pentium. Heck there are benchmarks that show the 486/120 performing the equivalent of a P60, that does not make it a pentium does it. Now Duping the unsuspecting customer with the clock speed (if you see the ads you'll see what I mean -- the 180 Mhz boldly displayed) and looks. Now that's what I call a brilliant cyrix innovation!! Find better ways to dupe the customer. Stockman

To: Joe NYC who wrote (25546)	11/6/1997 1:03:00 AM
From: Rob S.	Respond to of 1578699

We are all Pavlovian dogs -caught up in the habit of thinking that performance diferences are REALY significant. Come on, I know a lot of peoples' careers and mentalities have been shaped by the progression of past generations of PC hardware, but the differences between current generation product is just not that much. The dumb 'ol consumers who don't near as much as all of us sophisticated high-brow techno wizard types just decided to buy the hardware stuff that runs the software stuff that they thinnk they need. There stupid and wrong, of course, but they have grown the sub $1000 PC market from nearly nothing to 35% share of the PC market in just 18 months. What drives PC hardware? Is it esoteric benchmarks? WAKE UP!!! It's software. The evolution of fatter and fatter software has hit the roadblock of convergence of the PC and consumer electronics industry. PCs must get meaner 'n leaner not fatter and fatter. WIN '98 is going to be more refined and will run better on CURRENT genration Pentium class PCs than WIN 95. Ditto with a more scalable WIN NT 5.0. This is different - not fatter and fatter; maybe Microsoft knows something. Java, HDTV, WebTV, Netappliances, refined sub $1000 PCs are not aberations folks. This is the direction the momentum of the industry is increasingly embarked on. The computer is dead. (Or at least evolving)