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To: greg nus who wrote (52980)	3/20/1999 3:47:00 PM
From: TGPTNDR	Respond to of 1573954

Greg - Congratulations on the purchase of your notebooks. I hope they serve you as well as the old K6 desktop I bought in April '97, on which I am typing this, has served me. Stay in touch & make some money - Make lots of money! tgptndr

To: greg nus who wrote (52980)	3/20/1999 3:59:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573954

greg - Re: " Kash and all AMD'ers got my new compaq notebook Presario 1675 sporting a AMd K-6-2 380 with 3Dnow. In fact my partner both one also. Plays DVD movies flawlessly over 14.1" TFT screens. Priced at $2,299.00 At Fry's. the compaq box beat out 2 sony Vioa notesbook boxes one with a Pentium ii 333 the other with Pentium ii 366 priced at $2,499 and $3,299. both Sony boxes failed to deliver fully motoin video from the DVD disk noticable herky jerky motion interruption made it an easy decision to go with the compaq/ AMD offering. We don't know if the difference was all related to the difference in the graphics accelerator cards. the AMd system had the Avi-rage with 8 mb of video ram while the Pentium systems choose meomagic with 2.4mb of video ram. We suspect part of the problem to be related to pentium's lack of 3D now instruction set. The frys' people were quick to point out the compaq featured the latest technology with a 64 bit processor running on a 100 mhz motherboard while the pentium was described as old technology 32 bit running at 66mhz. My partner and i ahve stated here before that video applications are some of the ost demanding a system can perform. the AMd chip handeled the job with flying colors. And we are happy campers with high bragging rights showing off our new machines. Thankyou AMd for the great value and Performance. " We are all SO PLEASED that you have such a wonderful notebook computer with such a wonderful processor from such a wonderful processor manufacturer. By the way, hadn't you noticed? AMD is at $16 1/6 !!!!! Isn't that such a wonderful price? Paul

To: greg nus who wrote (52980)	3/20/1999 4:10:00 PM
From: EPS	Respond to of 1573954

FWIW I recently bought a Presario 1260 AMD K6-2-333. I'm very happy with it: neat little machine! I also went long again @ 16 1/4. Just saw very nice reviews on the K6-3 machines. Oh yes, I've read here a lot of negative and derogatory comments.. and the dark future that awaits anyone that dares to challenge Intel..But IMHO the future for AMD never looked better. For example, forget about the engineering, the great very competitive products that AMD is producing, its new alliances with major box manufacturers and just focus at the market penetration that AMD has managed in the last 12 months: very impressive to say the least. Regards Victor