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To: herb will who wrote (32906)	5/26/1998 2:31:00 PM
From: Joey Smith	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1570743

Based on price alone, doesn't look like K6-2 commands a premium over vanilla K6...hmmm, i thought Jerry promised that K6-2 would be the begiining of a new differentiated strategy for AMD...seems like the beginning of the end to me.. joey

To: herb will who wrote (32906)	5/26/1998 2:52:00 PM
From: Maverick	Respond to of 1570743

Sub-1K corporate desktops techweb.com Seanix Baby Grand-TCO Seanix has been making waves and winning awards by offering loads of features and decent performance at low, low prices. Last month, we reviewed its consumer 200MHz Baby Grand-CS; this month, we look at its corporate counterpart. (Seanix says the Baby Grand- TCO will have a 233MHz MMX Pentium chip for $999 by the time you read this.) There seems to be nothing missing from this complete compelling package: 200MHz MMX Pentium, 32MB of RAM, 512KB of level 2 cache, a 2.1GB hard disk, a 24X CD-ROM drive, integrated 10/100BaseT Ethernet and an ESS Technology ES1869 sound card with headphones (more appropriate than speakers for the corporate cubicle). It even had a very serviceable 15-inch monitor that demonstrated good focus and color rendition. The Windows 95 keyboard, with a slightly mushy tactile feel, was no better or worse than 90 percent of keyboards we see, and the mouse was an OEM version of the Microsoft IntelliMouse. The interior of the mid-tower case is accessed via thumbscrews; inside, there's plenty of room for expansion, and all parts are in easy reach for service. Seanix manufactures its own motherboards and video adapters in Canada. Performance wasn't bad: The Baby Grand-TCO earned a WinScore 2.0 mark of 45, among the better 200MHz systems, though not as good as one 166MHz AMD-K6 system, the Comp-Solutions AMD K6166 (see Reviews, December 1997). Put another way, the Baby Grand-TCO provides 45 percent of the performance of our Quantex 333MHz reference system, for 43 percent of the price. The Baby Grand-TCO's cached disk performance was its low point on our benchmarks, resulting in a poor Excel score. Its AutoCAD score would have been better with the addition of another 32MB of RAM. The Baby Grand-TCO is fully DMI 2.0 compliant. It ships with Windows 95 and Intel LANDesk Client Manager 3.11 preinstalled, but not with application software.