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To: Maxwell who wrote (33940)	7/5/1998 2:13:00 PM
From: Elmer	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573069

Re: "How do you justifying selling a Xeon for TWICE the price of a PII without any significant improvement?" The fact that you see no significant improvement doesn't prove much. HP and Dell and Compaq etc seem to believe it's worth buying them or they wouldn't use them, don't you think? The performance improvement is well worth the cost, it's just that you are probably looking at single processor benchmarks, which won't show much improvement as you note. A multiprocessing environment is the only place where they are worth the added cost. In those systems the Xeon offers a major cost advantage compared to the Sparc, Alpha or PPC systems they are competing with. Compare the Xeon to the K6 based servers and you will see what I am talking about. EP