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

To: greg nus who wrote (50699)	2/23/1999 5:02:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573540

<many days we run such application for hours on end. the pentium II cost $3,000 new the. Aptivia, $1,500. and the HP 1,100. as for reliabilty we have never experienced these machines lock up.> Hey, that's cool. This is an example of how the K6-3 can compete and nudge its way into the business market, where margins are higher. Now if only AMD can break out of its sub-$1000 retail market mold ... But $3000 for a Pentium II system? You must have bought that computer well before you bought those K6-2 systems. I probably spent close to $4000 on my Pentium II 266 MHz system at home. Much of the price is due to the Cheetah 10,000 RPM SCSI hard drive, which cost me $800. Had I waited a year (yeah, right, like I'd have the patience to wait), I could have bought an equivalent system for $2000. Tenchusatsu