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To: Elmer who wrote (32722)	5/16/1998 9:15:00 PM
From: Kevin K. Spurway	Respond to of 1571707

Re: "If this swells your chest with pride then who am I to deny you this pleasure." Elmer, the performance difference between the two CPU's--whether its K6/PII at 66 MHz bus or K6-3D/PII at 100 MHz--is negligible. A single Winstone point isn't going to increase anyone's productivity. I've internalized this simple fact. You seem incapable of doing so. For the money you save buying your K6/socket 7 system, you can buy a faster disk drive, faster graphics card, or maybe even a cable modem. This market is about price/performance, Elmer. If it weren't, I'd be typing this message on a Mac. But then again, if paying hundreds of dollars more for equivalent performance swells your chest with pride, then who am I to deny you this pleasure? Kevin

To: Elmer who wrote (32722)	5/16/1998 10:50:00 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571707

Elmer, OK I'll give you the fact that a P-II-300 is slighty faster than a K6-300 on Winstone 98. Not sure about Winstone 97. Lets say for arguments sake that AMD has their yield problems fixed and gets the same yields on .25u on the K6 that Intel gets on the Pentium II. What is the relative cost of the K-6 vs the Pentium II? Aren't we talking 68mm2 vs 131mm2? Don't argue, just answer the question to the best of your ability. Thanks, Jim.