Tracking Down The AMD "Processor Bug"

tercero writes: "over at the Gentoo Linux website there is an update on the AMD processor bug mentioned here. The sum up is that AMD claims it's not a bug with the Athlon processor, but with the motherboard. More detailed information can be found on this LKML post." An Anonymous Coward points to a similar explanation at Linux Weekly News. Update: 01/25 01:25 GMT by T : Daniel Robbins from Gentoo clarifies: "AMD is not calling this a 'motherboard' issue, it is an interaction between a feature of the Athlon called 'speculative writes' and the design of the GART, which is not cache-coherent. It's a 'Athlon/cache coherency/GART' problem, not a 'motherboard' problem."

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Re:this is something..

[dhamsaic]

Pardon me for sounding harsh but...

WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?

Firstly, Jobs has been back at Apple since 1996/1997. Uh... one, two, TWELVE! No.

MacOS X wasn't intended to make a surge - rather, it was meant to gradually move into the market place. It is doing this - more people are moving over to MacOS X every day. I know because I'm a hard-core UNIX geek, and I bought a new iBook and a PowerMac G4 800DP. 40% of Apple's computer sales are from people who have never owned a Macintosh before.

iMac pre-sales are doing great. Demand has been, according to all sources, very high. Hence, they are not able to meet production demands right away, and some units will be shipped a bit later. All this because no one's buying, right?

Apple posted a $66 Million profit in the quarter ending September, and some $38 Million profit for the quarter ending December.

Between November 10 and December 30, more than 125,000 iPods were sold (one to me, too - listening to it right now - it is awesome) - at $400 each, that's some $50 Million in revenues. On a fucking MP3 player.

The Titanium G4 PowerBook has been selling like crazy. I know because I live near an Apple store, and every time I'm in there, someone else is buying one. No joke.

The new iBook has got to be one of the most successful consumer portables ever. And it hasn't even been out for a year yet. It is selling faster than you can imagine - and to big customers, too. Maine ordered 36,000 for their teachers and students. Some district in Virginia ordered 24,000.

All this because Apple & the Macintosh are dying?

Apple has been "dying" for the past 20 years. Shit, I used to spout the same BS. I hated Apple and the Macintosh. However, one can only lie to oneself for so long - with MacOS X and the new hardware lineup, Apple is churning the best personal computers in the industry today. One pays a little more (on the high-end machines), but they are rewarded with a premium machine - much like one pays more for a BMW than they would a Geo Metro.

Only two computer manufacturers are making money currently. Apple & Dell. To quote Steve Jobs, "Dell does it by being Wal Mart. We do it by innovating."

Well, however they do it, they're the only computer company doing anything exciting in the field today. One must applaud them for that.