Re: Mersenne: P4 speed and implications thereof

[Nathan Russell]

Jud, you wrote:

>I wonder how many people are going to have P4s.  Presently, the Athlon is 
>faster for most things, and cheaper.  I don't know if the P4 will pull 
>ahead of AMD chips for most things, so will people buy them?

My understanding is that they are designed to perform well for
graphical tasks; in my experience, people will buy even very expensive
computers if it improves the performance they see when doing graphical
tasks; gaming in particular comes to mind.  

Nathan
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