AMD Desktops Outsell Intel

prostoalex writes "For the week ending August 21st AMD managed to capture 54% market share among new desktops sold. Intel's share during the week was 45%. While Intel leads the U.S. CPU market with 82.7% market share, folks from AMD are proud to announce this is the second week this year - they also outsold Intel on the desktop market one time in April 2004."

Comments

Re:Who would buy intel?

[ecc0]

Anyone who cares about using their computer for professional audio applications, for one. Sorry, I used to be like you, but experience has led me to realize that if you're going to do any serious A/V work, AMD -- or more specifically, AMD motherboards with cheap, ultra-crappy VIA south/northbridges and the like -- just won't cut it. You will get crackles in the audio, all around shitty performance and will have to apply about 200 patches to get things working at all.

If you're going to do anything more than play Quake ]|[ or browse the WWW and write Word documents, getting the CPU and chipset which is considered the reference implementation (meaning Intel chipsets on Intel motherboards with Intel CPU's) is worth it.

Re:what I'd like to see from Intel

[Tumbleweed]

Have you checked the power consumption of an Athlon 64 lately?

One company placed a big order

[HermanAB]

Those weekly figures don't mean squat. I think AMD has good processors and actually I'm using VIA miniITX machines lately, simply because they are so nice and small, but the main market still belongs to Intel.