AMD and Intel have been firce compeditors since the begining. the pinout is softdip controled to be compadible with Pentium/Pentium II/AMD K6-2/3/ and other Super Socket 7 and regular socket 7 CPUs, however the BIOS has been downsized for this laptop so it only operates at 66MHz operation instaid of its 66/100MHz FBS normal compadible operation, also the support for Penium/Pentium II Socket 7 CPUs has been removed to make the BIOS ALOT smaller