At 1:16 PM -0700 6/4/98, Javilk wrote:
>>
>> At 08:25 AM 03/06/98 -0700, you wrote:
>> >This is the Board that could never decide to sue Microsoft ....
>> >
>> >*** FTC staff recommends antitrust suit against Intel
>>
>> What a crock. What Intel has is nothing like a monopoly by any stretch of
>> the imagination. Look at the popularity of Cyrix and AMD processors. Jeez...
Just out of perverse curiousity (and you can tell how much fun /my/ Friday
nights are) ... I decided to visit some "big name" vendor sites -- since I
take comments like the above as "opinions" --
the opinions that intel doesn't have a monopoly do not seem well-founded,
frankly, in the "commercial" market as reflected below.
[btw -- only compaq had a modem-friendly site -- HP should be shot - not
only is it grahpics heavy -- it has links that do not a darn thing when you
click them cause their javascript doesn't work in communicator and they
have no text links - grrr]
Compaq
Five desktop lines -- each has a choice of two processors. Three only offer
Intel. Two offer either Intel or a Celeron� processor -- and celeron /is/
intel
http://www.compaq.com/products/desktops/comparison.html
http://channel.intel.com/business/ibp/processor/bpc_fact.htm
Five laptops -- all intel
http://www.compaq.com/products/portables/index.html
Four workstations -- all intel
http://www.compaq.com/products/workstations/models.html
Dell
Two desktop lines -- only intel - even on the NetPC
Notebooks (2 lines) -- only intel
Workstation -- only intel
http://www.dell.com/products/index.htm
Gateway
home page blurb:
Gateway Makes Pentium� II the
Processor of Choice on GP Line of
Desktops
http://www.gateway.com/
HP
Configure your PC -- Intel Only
http://www.pcOrder.com/scripts/wsf30/HPBrio.dll?Template=Build&Name=hpbrio&Passw
ord=hpbrio
IBM
(frank, I went to the site but got tired of waiting for the server at
http://www.pc.ibm.com/ to respond -- REALLY REALLY SLOW)
Four PCs -- all are intel
Aptiva doesn't tell you up front what processor(s) they use -- dig a bit
one is Intel (the most expensive, judging by placement in the chart --
last) and the other four K6� MMX�-Enhanced
Who is K6? Answer: AMD.
while doing this, the IMB thinkpad ad came on the radio --touting it's
Intel technology.
SUMMARY:
NONE of these five OEMs had Cyrix-based machines on their web site.
ONE had AMD on its "low-end" machines.
You still wanna say this is no monopoly?
OH -- also found this site in trying to figure out who made K6:
http://www.cpu-central.com/
from the benchmarking page (its a framed site)
The Pentium II processors scored best under all memory/OS configurations,
but because of heavy use of I/O in running the applications that make up
the Business Winstone test suite, sheer processor muscle does not shine
through.
As a result, there isn't much performance variation among the processors.
Under the Windows NT/64MB configuration, the difference between the best
CPU, the Pentium II/300, and the worst, the Pentium/200, is only 48
percent--a meager improvement considering the price difference.
The Cyrix 6x86MX-PR233 edged AMD's K6/233 and almost matched the Pentium
II/233 on all Business Winstone runs. The Cyrix 6x86-PR200 outperformed
(slightly) its Intel counterpart, the 200-MHz classic Pentium, and
surprisingly, so did the AMD K5-PR166.
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