I understand why everyone talks about price/performance when they compare the P4 with the Athlon. However, to a big corp, price/performance is NOT the first thing they look into. Do u know there are people out there who pays $20000+ for a decent 'WORK GROUP' server? $100000+ for some decent database server? I think some of these pricing are crazy tho.
What AMD can offer for now, is price. Take away the price advantage, AMD basically has no advantage. Speed wise, a 2GHz P4 is about the same as a Athlon 1.4. However, there are programs that will make a 1.3GHz P4 faster than an Athlon 1.4, and the other way around. So speed wise, AMD does not really hold an 'advantage' to Intel anymore. I am starting to worry that AMD cannot might not be able to continue this price war for long. By the way, from what I know, a company does NOT reduce the price until they are 'loosing it'. It is like why would you sell your chips at $100 when you have enough buyer at $200.
I am not saying AMD is 'loosing it', in fact, not at all. Just that they should NOT only use price as the ultimate attractions to buyers.
The 2.2GHz P4 (512kb) will definately kick some AMD's ass for sure. Unless they clock their Palominos at at least 1.8... performance wise they will loose to the Intel.
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