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To: wily who wrote (3867)	6/1/1999 2:00:00 PM
From: RJL	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 110626

Assuming we'll send out maybe 150 drives. The 1 or 2 systems that come back are normally at least 3 years old. Of all the problems, hard drive failure is not one of the big ones that I've run into. That said, it shouldn't discourage people from making backups, because drive failures have this tendency to occur at the worst possible time. You also have to take into account that SCSI drives do have better reliability than IDE drives. And the warranty on a SCSI is normally 5 years...IDE: 3 years. As I've mentioned before, I never was a huge fan of AMD CPU's. Not so much because the CPU's were inferior to Intel's, but the chipsets used for AMD based systems weren't as reliable as Intel's. Apollo and Ali have made some good progress lately, and I probably should take a look at what the new ones are like...but in this industry, when you've been burned often enough, you're much more wary of trying again. All in all, the technology used for the K7 is certainly impressive. The die factor and new instruction set is most likely superior to Intel's Katmai (P3). I'm curious to see the new features that Intel adds with the Camino chipset as well. Cheers, Rich