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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (57069)	5/3/1999 12:42:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573813

<What are they going to say? That the K7 is the same generation as a K6?> I'd like some more valid comparisons. AMD's hype-to-reality ratio is historically very high, and that's unfortunate considering there's a lot of people who are willing to follow Jerry "Pied Piper" Sanders to the ocean. People already think that the K7 will be 40% faster than the Pentium III. And the way a lot of the people talked on this thread, they thought so, too. Now the rumor is that the K7 may only achieve performance parity with Pentium III, and now I see a lot of people retreating from their initial expectations. The story is no longer "Wait until K7." The story has changed to "Wait until K7 really gets going." Fred Fahmy put it best when he said, in essence, that it's the same song and dance over and over again when it comes to AMD. Remember statements like "K6 is faster than Klamath/Pentium II" or "3DNow! is going to take the gaming market away from Intel"? Tenchusatsu