Replies to post #7495 on Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

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YB, Re: Not everyone upgrade right to P4 3.2, most people upgrade to P4 2.6. Then A64 will be clearly a better choice than P4 2.6.

I don't understand your logic. You say that people would rather upgrade to a 2.6GHz Pentium 4 than a 3.2GHz Pentium 4, and I can understand that, given the price difference. But what makes you think that they will want to upgrade to an Athlon 64? Do you think AMD will price it the same as a low end Pentium 4, right off the bat? I don't think so.

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yourbankrupty, re Athlon-64 advantages

You missed the most important advantage of Athlon-64. It provides a 64-bit binary architecture that should be stable for a decade or more. A good number of us will never need a different architecture. Sure, more RAM, higher performance disks, higher clock speeds, etc., but a 64 bit address space should suffice for this half of the century.