RE: A Question about Dual CPU systems

[Tom Droege <tdroege2@earthlink.net>]

I am suddenly pretty nervous about my computer purchase.  I ordered it from 
a company in (I thought) Cleveland.   It is actually

ProNetSale
5380 Naiman Pkwy, Suite E
Solon, OH, 44139
(877) 337-7889

Well, they called this morning to verify my address.  A common problem here 
since my address is 2S942 and companies can never believe that the S is in 
the address.  The caller spoke broken English.  Russian broken 
English.  Sigh!  I try to keep away from the Russian maffia.  I think they 
do not teach much ethics in Russian business schools.  Well, I think they 
have quite teaching business ethics at Harvard and Princeton too these 
days.  At least Arther Anderson who is right up the road from me seems to 
have quit hiring auditors that have taken any ethics.

We shall see if they deliver, or if they steal my identity and go on a 
spree with my credit card number.  I usually stick to companies far away 
from what I feel is questionable business locations.  For me this means 
most of the East Coast.  I thought Ohio would be OK.  Perhaps it is.  In 
any case this location appealed to me because it is close and in the mid 
west, and away from IL so no tax.  I have had good luck dealing with a 
company in MN.

In light of Chris's comments, I notice that the AMD devices are labeled:

* Dual (2) AMD Athlon MP 1800 1.53GHz Processors

So what does MP 1800 mean?  Is this an attempt to imply that it is as good 
as an Intel 1.8 GHz chip?

Tom Droege




At 12:53 PM 5/13/02 -0700, you wrote:
>The marking folks at Intel are pretty smart.  Here is what they
>did when they went from the Pentium III to the Pentium IV.
>
>They figured correctly that "Joe Consumer" who shops at Best Buy
>knows only one thing about computers "more Gigahurts is goodder"
>
>So in one brilliant move, they simplified the CPU logic so that it now
>takes more clock cycles per operation and then run up the clock speed
>so that now a 1Ghz P-III is about equal to a 1.4Ghz P-IV but the
>P-IV is on a smaller die and costs less to manufacture.  The Intel
>bean counters are happy. Joe sees a higher clock speed and is happy
>too.
>
>People who know what's up buy the Athalon XP/MP but Intel doesn't
>care as people who know what's up account for about 0.01% of the
>PC market.
>
>Sun is selling $995.00 SPARC based boxes now.  These shouldn't be
>overlooked.  They only run at 500Hmz but they are full 64 bit CPUs
>that do fast floating point and the box is only 1U tall.
>
>
>
>--- Bob Dubner <rdubner@bellatlantic.net> wrote:
> > Whether you go dual or single, I have some experience with
> > floating-point
> > number-crunching applications running under Windows.
> >
> > Think Athlon.
> >
> > Athlon CPU chips are cheaper, clock cycle for clock cycle, than
> > Pentium
> > chips.  And their floating-point unit is more efficient.  In my
> > experience,
><SNIP>
>
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