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Subject: Re: diep tested at dual core AMD/INTEL

Author: Kurt Utzinger

Date: 06:17:02 04/29/05

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On April 29, 2005 at 08:50:52, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:

>On April 29, 2005 at 07:43:13, Kurt Utzinger wrote:
>
>>On April 28, 2005 at 20:02:10, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>>
>>[...ยจ]
>>>Intel has simply lost the performance battle until start of 2007 for
>>>desktopprocessors and objective comparisions like these show it real clear.
>>>
>>>Even if intel comes by end 2006 with a good replacement for the P4, by then
>>>every normal computer user will realize that intel sucks and AMD is fast, so the
>>>damage intel has done to itself in the desktop market is one of long term.
>>[...]
>>
>>     For the average PC user this all is of no interest. To
>>     work with Word & Co. a PC 486 would still do the same
>>     job. And so the damage Intel has done to itself does
>>     not count much because only few people require (or mean
>>     to require) a top speed computer.
>>     Kurt
>
>But the public will still opt for AMD because they do not like to hear they are
>using a slow P4.

      True
      Kurt



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