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- From: smduke@melkor.lerc.nasa.gov (Aparajit Mahajan)
- Subject: 486 CPU Intel or Cyrix
- Message-ID: <1992Nov12.223023.28406@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov>
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- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 22:30:23 GMT
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- I am trying to buy a 486 based system and when I started looking at
- various mail-order places, I found out that Cyrix is now making 486
- chips too. Systems based on Cyrix chip instead of Intel chip are about
- 100-200 $ cheaper. Does anyone know about reliability of Cyrix chips
- compared to Intel chips and compatibility for other software and hardware?
- Is it worth buying a Cyrix based machine instead of Intel based to save
- 100-200$?
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- Also when I talked to a few mail order places, almost everyone was
- quoting 100-200$ more than their advertised price in computer shopper
- (november 1992), saying that CPU and memory prices have gone up in last
- 2 weeks. Is it really true or these guys are just trying to get as much
- as they can and advertise a low price just to get calls from customers
- like those camera and video mail order places do?
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- If anyone has anything to say on this please let me know. Thanks.
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- Aparajit Mahajan
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