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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (21841)	12/6/1997 4:51:00 PM
From: Joe NYC	Respond to of 33344

Jim I agree about AGP but aren't AGP cards cheaper to make? I don't think so. You have to design the card, write new drivers, test new drivers, add cost of AGP connector, add logic to control AGP transfer. These are all addition. There are no savings. All this will achieve only a fraction of the performance you would get if you added more memory to the graphics card. Also, the 1% or so programs that will benefit from AGP will lose a portion of system RAM to the textures stored there, reducing the performance somewhat. The whole thing is a complete rip-off. Funny that the "commentators" in major magazines chose to overlook this. Not just overlook it. They gave a similar "technology", MMX their Techincal Achievment Award in PC Magazine. BTW, if anyone missed this, the "MMX technology" beat Cyrix MediaGX for this award. I think I should e-mail them. Joe