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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: AK2004 who wrote (31758)	4/12/1998 4:54:00 PM
From: Harve Wolfe	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1571810

Albert or Whoever wants to respond- I find myself a very disillusioned AMD stockholder this afternoon. I finally found a reason to upgrade my old 486, a program that really needs more computer power to run well. How fortunate, I'll be able to buy a K6-300 from IBM. Descending on the IBM aptiva website, credit card in hand, I was confronted with two 300 Mhz offerings: E84 (K6-300) @ $1499 and E76 (pentiun II-300) @ $1799. OK, that's a no brainer E84, wrong. The E76 has 8 GB hard drive compared to 4GB with the K6 offering. Well that was disappointing, but I don't need that much storage, it shouldn't interfere with performance?, and still 300 bucks less. Next, the video card has 4MB with the pentium and 2 MB with the K6. Well now from my limited knowledge base that's probably going to reduce performance. Why is IBM shooting itself and AMD in the foot? If both the E84 and the E76 were identical except for the processor I'd have paid $1799 for the K6 machine and ordered it today. Why, Why, Why would IBM confuse the CPU issue this way, maybe to the benefit of Intel? IBM would better serve themselves, by serving the public better! Clear choices would result in more sales. When the public is confronted with these types of choices, many do what I did, freeze and not buy anything. Thoughts? Harve