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To: Bill Jackson who wrote (51245)	2/28/1999 8:45:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Respond to of 1570913

<An AMD machine or an Intel machine will work at the same level of reliability as we have become commoditised with regard to CPUs.> The CPU may be fine, but it's the platform that could be slightly less than reliable. There have been some reports on the ZDNet Talkback forums from vendors who have more AMD-based systems returned than Intel-based ones. Of course, some of these vendors get flamed when they associate these problems with an AMD CPU, but nevertheless, AMD becomes associated with lower-quality systems in the minds of these people. Like I said before, the platform is key. If you've got a reliable CPU going into an unreliable motherboard with crappy devices, guess who's going to take the brunt of the blame. Tenchusatsu