news.com.com — "Dell has ordered between 1 million and 1.2 million desktop computers with Advanced Micro Devices processors and about 800,000 notebooks, Bank of America financial analyst Sumit Dhanda said in a report Thursday."
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astrotrainAug 18, 2006
Dell w/ AMD CPU = A car from the junkyard with a Porche engine...
yashuAug 18, 2006
intel may own 32bit desktops, but AMD still owns the 64bit x86 server and desktop arena... and this is where the future is anyway. When vista 64bit becomes mainstream, more 64bit apps come into production, and people are gaining ~25% or more performance from their AMD machines and no performance increase on their intel boxes, this point will be even more clear.Server integrators know this and that is why you see so many bringing more AMD64 powered stuff to market even after conroe and woodcrest.
xemumanicAug 18, 2006
That's exactly what I was coming here to post. AMD fanboys like Yashu can spout all the crap they want, but this is too little too late. Dell should have done this 2-3 years ago when it mattered.
georgelogyAug 18, 2006
Yes, the Intel Core2 Duo beats the A64 pretty handily, but at a fairly high price premium.The Pentium 4 and all its inefficient power wasting glory, is dead.
stealthgodAug 18, 2006
"It's not helping AMD or Dell's stock this morning, that's for sure: AMD down 6%, AMD down 8%."You're right, the whole tech sector is down today... not as much now though. AMD is down 3%. But I'm not complaining since it's up about 15% over the last few days.
geronimoAug 18, 2006
Judging from Dell's recent drop in profit, the market has spoken:Too little too late.Remember when Dell was playing word games, promising to use AMD when they did no such thing. That was probably the time to do something about it. Now they're going down into the flames of hell along with Intel. And the rest of us have opteron servers. They lost their chance, how often to you replenish your server once you have a good server.I expect more layoffs and whining from the evil Intel-Dell overlords as they descend into the abyss.
truthseeker69Sep 15, 2006
No, it was your mistake, a fact. The basics of the article and financial mathematics were well spelled out...not anyone's fault, or onus, if you make a mistake, can't read, post a comment so someone else can jump on your mistake, etc. Pwn up, wtfiyp?