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To: Pravin Kamdar who wrote (22187)	12/19/1997 6:08:00 PM
From: FJB	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 33344

Did you ever see this article from Techweb? I don't recall reading it before. Both engineers said their companies are prototyping sub-$1,000 systems based on the Cyrix MediaGX that probably would be aimed at corporate users early next year. While Cyrix is ahead of Intel in addressing the low-cost corporate market, it still faces some delays, the first engineer said. Cyrix has done a good job of enlisting a broad group of Taiwan's motherboard makers to build MediaGX boards. However, the designs are generally aimed at the consumer market and need a different configuration of peripherals and slots to be suitable for business users. Thus, Cyrix has developed a corporate MediaGX reference design that it showed at Comdex, and some U.S. PC makers are now designing their own business systems based around the processor. techweb.com

To: Pravin Kamdar who wrote (22187)	12/19/1997 6:19:00 PM
From: Joe NYC	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 33344

Pravin, Those large images must be streamed off the disk. You need to load the images from the hard drive before you can manipulate them, but you spend most of the time manipulating the images. If your system needs to swap to the dis during this process, you have pretty much lost the war. No amount of CPU power will help you much. As I said, you need 64 Megs just to get going and if you are working with large images, you may even need 256 Megs. What sometimes happens with the reviewers is that they just mechanically run through the tests using stadard out of the box configurations, without any thinking. Joe