Tom wist zich op het laatste moment toch nog een pers kaart te verschaffen en brengt daarom toch een verslag van de CeBIT 2000. Naast geblurb over Tom's eetgewoontes krijgen we informatie over Intel ('kleine stand, vies eten'), het Ziff-Davis persfeestje (saampjes op de foto), VIA ('voelt zich sterk'), 3dfx ('grote tieten ipv snelle chips') en AMD. Laatstgenoemde demonstreerde achter gesloten deuren een Thunderbird op 1116MHz (thanks Basb voor de tip):
In a funky glass room AMD showed the air-cooled Athlon 1100 that some of the journalists already knew from AMD's neighborhood-show to IDF. The system ran at exactly 1116 MHz and we took the chance of playing around with the system after the presenter had left the room for a few minutes. All software we could try and that was installed on the system ran without a problem. This time we had requested to look inside the case, to see what Thunderbird (Athlon with on-die L2-cache) actually looks like. I was very impressed to see everybody scramble and look for a screwdriver to fulfill my wish.
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