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From: jefe@netcom.com (Pablo)
Subject: Re: Pentium MMX or Pentium Pro
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mlsnow (mlsnow@taz.dra.hmg.gb) wrote:
: Millennium wrote:
: > 
: >
: From a magazine article I read the Pentium 166 MMX is faster at
: most applications than a normal 200Mhz pentium.

: Also the Pentium Pro with MMX is to be called the KLAMATH and
: that the pentium pro is soon to be discontinued because it costs
: too much to produce!
	
	Hmmmm.  I'm very suspicious about the 2nd part.  Pentium Pros (in
my unscientific observation) are beginning to now be seriously marketed to
consumers where before they were mostly marketed as high end file servers
for companies.  I am now a proud owner of one, as are several of my
friends.  When you do the performance benchmarks coupled with pricing,
they're very much worth the price.  All my computing life I've always been
quite a ways behind the mass market and for the first time I'm ahead of
the curve.  For the first time I have the fastest, most heavily configured
machine on my block and it didn't cost me more than an equivalent fully
loaded p5-200 machine.  Admittedly I got all the parts individually via 
mail order which saved me a ton, plus I know some very low cost sources 
for quality hardware.  If ANYONE were going to spend anything in the 
range of $2300-2600 on a fully loaded p5 machine, they should consider a 
pro. 

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