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To: Yougang Xiao who wrote (34879)	7/20/1998 4:32:00 PM
From: Michael DaKota	Respond to of 1573428

Uhmm priced the SAME ? 1) the 300 K6 has a bigger hard disk (5.1 vs 4.3, while i think the 4.3 is a BIGFOOT (yeagg), 2)K6 300 has 64 vs 48 megs of ram. (pII has a 32 speed vs 24 speed cd-rom, but that's only $10 difference MAX) 3)The harddisk in the pII333 is a also a BIGFOOT , wich suck, and are quite cheap compared to normal 3.5 " hard disks. Quantum does NOT make any BIGFOOTS of the size 7.2 nore 5.1, so i guess they may be Quantum Fireballs, Seagates, or Maxtor (wich i find the likely'st). Wich all are quite a bit better and faster than the BIGFOOT's . 1860 MT AMD K6-2 300 MHz 64MB 5.1GB 24x 56Kbps $ 999 1870 MT AMD K6-2 333 MHz 64MB 7.2GB 32x 56Kbps $1,199 6058 MMT Intel PII 300 MHz 48MB 4.3GB 32x 56Kbps $ 999 6063 MMT Intel PII 333 MHz 64MB 8.4GB 32x 56Kbps $1,299 I do not find it very strange that Acer wants the K-6 systems to perform better, i suppose they are using Ali-chipsets for the motherboards (ALi is from Acer technologies), so it would be in their own advantage if the K6-2 would be faster in overall performance than the pII's.