I would have loved to congratulate Intel for the development of i815, but the fact that BX133 is still faster in the majority of benchmarks leaves me unsatisfied. I still don't see any sensible reason why Solano should not be able to reach BX133-scores or even outperform its two-year-old predecessor. Solano's 'underperformance' is raising some serious questions. Was Intel unable to make i815 as fast as 440BX or did Intel simply not want to make it too fast? I am sure that we won't ever get an honest answer to this question, so I leave it up to you to answer this question for yourself.

The excitement over the aesthetic vanished instantly however once the system was fired up and the first image was presented. I don't remember for certain but I am reasonably certain that the first word to fall outta my face was, simply, "WOW". An image of a model of a human skull was standing in front of the monitor as sure as my name is KillerG. I exaggerate not. It appeared that the image was floating in thin air somewhere in between the monitor and my, now very wide-open, eyeballs. I felt as though I could reach out with both hands, grab the skull and fling it across the room. Then Arnie, (Arnold D. Lagergren, DTI's Prez) who was giving us the presentation, raised his hand up in front of the screen in order to point out a particular area of the image and it appeared that his finger was actually going to go right into the eye socket of the skull. More words like "oh my God" and "holy crap" began to fall from my lips. I was completely taken aback by the reality of this illusion. I gotta tell ya, I have been fascinated by illusionists before but never to this extent. I think the words that Evil used (once he managed to pry my fascinated ass outta the viewing chair) was something like, "Man, this is disturbing".