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To: Scumbria who wrote (73885)	2/17/1999 4:54:00 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Respond to of 186894

Scumbria, Well, we all like to dream. Myself included. The fact is that we've been waiting on Cyrix/NSM and the promise of the integrated/PCOAC/information appliance dream for too many moons. Until the cows come home. Wasn't it 2 years ago or 3? when Cyrix started the dream with the MediaGX? A great concept but they couldn't produce enough chips and have improved little on the concept for years. They gained a whopping 100MHz...on the M-II and the GX in all that time. Now, Intels line up for MARCH will be 450, 500 and 550MHZ Pentium IIIs and 366, 400 and 433 MHZ Celerons. NSM has nothing that runs over 266MHZ or a PR rating of over 333. This leaves them further in the bottom of the barrel...with the MXi and PCOAC still NOWHEREville man.

To: Scumbria who wrote (73885)	2/17/1999 5:03:00 PM
From: Gerald Walls	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Look at the benchmarks Jim. Everybody is scoring within 20% of each other. 20% is almost meaningless. Tell that to a gamer getting 48 fps instead of 60 fps. (And don't tell me to get a better graphics engine as this is a demonstration of 20% not being meaningless.) Tell that to the person behind you on the highway as you drive 44, before he shoots you. Tell that to the track coach when you lose the 100 meters at 12 seconds verses the winner's 10 seconds. Tell that to the mortgage company when you tell them that you're only going to pay $800/month instead of $1000. Tell that to your boss when you voluntarily take a 20% pay cut.