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To: Reginald Middleton who wrote (17351)	2/10/1998 8:08:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Respond to of 24154

<The low end PII isn't exactly faster than the current AMD K6/233, now selling for $150 street price.> What??? I don't know, what? According to Tom's hardware page, the PII 233 is maybe 10% faster than the K6/233 on most things. Except for Quake, of course, with its notorious hand-coded Pentium floating point stuff, and MMX stuff, which to my knowledge is still sort of a yawner. But, the K6 part costs a little more than half as much, and in general has a much broader and cheaper range of MB's around to plug it into. Intel's stripper PII plans - they going to be magically faster, without a cache? AMD has lost money for the last 2 quarters. They had trouble ramping up production, but it seems they're not having trouble producing chips now. At least, 233 K6's are readily available at a good price. Will they vanquish Intel? No, but what do you think the price of computers would be if they weren't around? Oh, I forget, Mr. Proprietary Lock doesn't believe in competition, unless it's Microsoft crushing somebody by giving stuff away. Whatever. Cheers, Dan.