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1.3GHz Duron Arrives

Posted by timothy on Monday January 21, 2002 @07:01AM from the schnell-und-gunstig dept.

zebadee writes: "Tom's Hardware has the news that AMD have released a 1.3GHz Duron to the "mainstream PC market" that has been optimised for use with WindowsXP. The article also asks 'why haven't AMD gone with the MHz doesn't equal performance as they have done with the new XP/MP chips, as it would be assumed the market for these will be consumers who don't generally look at benchmark figures?' More information can be found at the AMD website."

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XP ? Who cares - how about Linux performance by tph · 2002-01-21 07:08 · Score: 1, Troll

Any details on this optimisation for XP?
Will it boost my linux?!
Anyone?
Re:What?! by bonzoesc · 2002-01-21 07:09 · Score: 1, Troll

Ssh. We all know Microsoft sets the standards with their software. When you're big, you can force others to do what you want them to. It's a hell of a lot easier than good programming practices.