"My AMD 350Mhz with 128Mb is really spooky. You can open up about a gazillion applications (so they turn into tiny little cubes on the bottom of your taskbar) and still Alt-Tab to switch between them and the apps switch within nanoseconds. It's like as long as I leave my computer on, I can unplug my harddrive...

I've also freed up about 1 hr. of computing time per day from this recent upgrade. Compound that 1hr. per day over a year - I save well over 300+ hours per year. It makes sense to upgrade your computer to the fastest thing possible if you value time is worth more than the amount put into an upgrade. The 300+ free spare hours I will gain this year, is nothing compared to the few hundreds of dollars it inexpensively costed. If you still can't see it - I'm paying two dollars for one hour of freedom."

-This Webmaster, that uses an AMD 350Mhz for his own personal desktop computer

981006_msnbc.txt AMD reports unexpected profit Strong sales of new microprocessor spurred profits in the third quarter; AMD could beat Intel in some markets

981006_amd.txt AMD ACHIEVES RECORD SALES AND BOOKINGS AS IT RETURNS TO PROFITABILITY

980522_zdnet.txt "Competitors Circumvent Slot 1"

980504_reseller.txt "...PC Magazine found the 266MHz Celeron to be slightly slower than a 166MHz Pentium..."

"Intel to cut 3,000 jobs"

Just a few months after the first AMD-K6 chips were launched from AMD'S Fab 25 in Austin, Texas, they were already available for do-it-yourself computer users shopping at the main Beijing computer mart.

Why AMD?
Current big-name manufacturers that are using AMD processors:

*prices indicated are in Candian dollars.

IBM Aptiva E2U with the AMD K6-2 333 3DNow! processor, 32Mb, for $1349 (98-11-26 Future Shop)

Compaq Presario 1235 Notebook with the with the AMD K6 266 MMX processor, for $2399 (98-11-26 Future Shop)

Compaq Presario 5150 with the AMD K6-2 300 3DNow! processor, 128Mb, for $1999 (98-10-09 Future Shop)

Hewlett Packard Pavilion 6350S with the AMD K6-2 333 3DNow! processor, 64Mb, 15" monitor, for $1999 (98-08-27 Future Shop)

Hewlett Packard Pavilion 6330 with the AMD K6 300 MMX processor, 48Mb, 15" monitor, color printer included for $1699 (98-08-27 Future Shop)

Compaq Presario 2256 with the AMD K6 300 MMX processor, 48Mb, for $1249 (98-08-27 Future Shop)

Compaq Presario 1640 Notebook with the AMD K6 266 MMX processor (98-08-27 Future Shop)

Compaq Presario 1625 Notebook with the AMD K6 266 MMX processor (98-08-27 Future Shop)

IBM E3N with the AMD K6-2 300 3DNow! processor, 32Mb, 15" monitor, Canon BJ250C color printer included for $1799 (98-08-18 Bureau En Gros)

Hewlett Packard Pavilion 6330S with the AMD K6-2 300 3DNow! processor, 32Mb, 15" monitor, HP670C color printer included for $1899 (98-08-03 Bureau En Gros)

IBM Aptiva E84 with the AMD K6 300 multimedia processor, 64Mb, 15" monitor, color printer included for $2199 (98-05-27 Future Shop)

IBM Aptiva E56 with the AMD K6 266 multimedia processor, 48Mb, for $1599 ($400 less than Hewlett Packard 8350 Intel Celeron 266) (98-05-06 Future Shop)

IBM Aptiva E56 with the AMD K6 266 multimedia processor, 48Mb, 15" monitor, color printer included for $1999 (98-05-05 Bureau En Gros)

Compaq Presario 4550 with the AMD K6 233 multimedia processor, 100Mb zip drive included for $1899 (98-03-10 Aventure Electronique)

Compaq Presario 2240 with the AMD K6 200 multimedia processor, monitor, color printer included for $1649 (98-03-10 Aventure Electronique)

IBM Aptiva E46 with the AMD K6 266 multimedia processor, 32Mb SDRAM, 4.0Gb, 56k, 24x, 15" monitor, for $2499 (98-03-05 La Maison Informatique)

Compaq Presario 2240 with the AMD K6 200 multimedia processor, for $1199 (98-03-04 Future Shop)

IBM Aptiva E23 with the AMD K6 233 multimedia processor, 15" monitor included, for $1999 (98-03-04 Future Shop)

IBM's most powerful Aptiva E-series, the E46 with the AMD K6 266 multimedia processor

IBM Aptiva E26 with the AMD K6 233 multimedia processor (Future Shop)

Acer Aspire 1254 with the AMD K6 233 multimedia processor (Future Shop)

New 1998 Compaq Presario with the AMD K6 233 multimedia processor (Compucentre)

Compaq Presario 4540 with the AMD K6 233 multimedia processor (Future Shop)

Digital PC3000 desktop computers featuring the AMD K6 multimedia processor

Acer Aspire 1822 with the AMD K6 233 multimedia processor (Future Shop)

Acer Aspire 1830 with the AMD K6 233 multimedia processor (Bureau En Gros)

If faster cpu processing, more computing power, higher benchmarks, lower costs, and IBM - inventor of the "Original PC", can't show that AMD processors are indeed of the best, nothing else really can, and is most likely caused by sheer simple stupidity.

There is really just one reason why they would buy Intel. The reason is clear. They will buy Intel if they like Intel. They just go ahead and say "I like Intel", straight out and honest to say"I buy Intel, because I like Intel".

However, we continue to hear those ignorant know-it-alls that haven't got a shred of credibility to say:

    "AMD is not fully compatible."
    "AMD might be buggy."
    "AMD is going to go out of business."
    "Better buy Intel, just to be sure."
    "Who's going to buy AMD, if Intel just costs a little more?"
Such are words from an uneducated person that refuses to learn about the brave new world, and will eventually one day, collapse and die in their own suffocation. These are people who are defined to have an impossibility complex. Someone with an impossibility complex, is extremely pessimistic, look for more ways for something to go wrong, rather than how one thing can go right, is always on the extreme negative side, and never on the positive side. They must always find something that can go wrong, no matter how untrue it may be. Most of all, they fear change. Chances of someone already infected by the impossibility complex to be cured are pretty much slim to none.

So if you ever run into those blundering fools with the impossibility complex, pay no attention to them, ignore them, and go on. They'll just cowel back to their little insignificant worldlet, where the world runs flat, and the telephone is way too advanced. The universe will happen quite well, with or without them.

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"hmmm(n), say Intel is buggy, it brings denial, impossibility of such a thing to ever happen - even though it's already been proven true. But say AMD is buggy, it somehow mysteriously gets written into history books as fact. Go figure. That is one way to prove, we live in an extremely un-educated world."