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To: Elmer who wrote (34742)	7/18/1998 11:33:00 AM
From: Majic-	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572970

The numbers are indeed a tiny bit higher . But even a 200 mmx would be more than sufficient for Desktop publishing. I don't think any user would notice the differance between "100 fps scrolling in Office" and "107 fps scrolling in Office" Get the point...Integer calculations are not as important as fpu ones. Offcourse that whas the strongest point of the K6 in the past, because with fpu it could not keep up. But I don't see the advantage of beeing able to run desk top publishing programs at 5 % faster than K6 when the game and overall performance is way lower. I don't even think K6 will be very popular under Nt, nore will the Celeron . They are both targeted at lower end and middle end market. Maybe even the Zub-Zero market.

To: Elmer who wrote (34742)	7/18/1998 1:09:00 PM
From: Kevin K. Spurway	Respond to of 1572970

Re: "Well, not really. Notice how the Celeron beats both the K6 and the K6-me2 on high end Winstone 98 under WinNT 4.0 when all are running at 300mhz with a 100mhz bus." This is like saying that the US has a better soccer team than Brazil because it beat Brazil in a friendly match that was irrelevant in every meaningful way. The reality, of course, was that Brazil didn't care and didn't bother to try to win. NOBODY cares how fast a sub-$200 chip runs high end Winstone 98 under NT, because NOBODY is using those chips for that purpose!! Kevin