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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (44022)	12/25/1998 9:08:00 PM
From: Ali Chen	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1572853

T, <It'll be amusing to see how Ali "babbles" his way out of this.> <As usual, Ali is babbling again. I already posted an excerpt from PC Magazine's latest Home PC comparison, including Gateway's own Xeon model for the home: Message 6920852 > You are a shotty youngster to talk like that. You were too fast to conclude that the two systems, PII-450 and X2-450, were identical. Even if both of them had 128MB memory, it is highly likely that the more expensive system was equipped with Cas-2 memory instead of Cas-3. The source you mention must be highly biased to show off "advantages" of Xeon in order to justify higher markup. Nobody argues that there is no gain from faster L2 whatsoever. The argument is whether it is economically reasonable. Even if the two models were identical (and they WERE NOT because of different CHIPSET) the 7% gain is not a good justification of the doubled Xeon price (to manufacture I mean, counting for two 222 sq.mm proprietary SDRAM). And please do not bubble about Intel as "low-cost producer" here.