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Subject: Re: AMD or Pentium4?

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 04:18:06 04/09/03

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On April 08, 2003 at 23:41:44, Pavel Blokhine wrote:

>I am looking to buy a new computer. I will be using it for many things, but
>mostly for computer video games and chess online. So what computer would be
>best? TheMicro Express MicroFlex 27A Powered by AMD's 2.17-GHz Athlon XP 2700+
>processor and 512MB of DDR400 SDRAM, the MicroFlex 27A earned a blistering score
>of 130 on PC WorldBench 4 tests, for $2254 or a Dell Dimension 8250• 3.06-GHz
>Pentium 4 processor• 200GB hard drive• 18-inch LCD monitor• 128MB ATI Radeon
>9700 Pro graphics• 16X DVD-ROM drive, DVD+RW/+R drive at $3158?

if i may ask why is it so expensive, 2245$ i assume you talk about US dollar,
sounds like a lot to me. P4 always is more expensive for the same performance.
nothing new there.

But 3158 sounds even for a P4 pretty too much.



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