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AMD Desktops Outsell Intel

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the powerful-all-caps-mode dept.

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."

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  1. Intel secret plan by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Intel is planning to release a 10.000 MHZ cpu and kick AMD poor lame ass.

  2. And... by -kertrats- · · Score: -1, Troll

    it still doesnt matter. As long as Dell, HP, and Gateway continues to ship P4s in their Joe Consumer-model computers, AMD won't get anywhere in the market except among people who actually know what a processor is [if asked, most people would think its a cell phone brand or something].

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  3. Re:Who would buy intel? by ecc0 · · Score: 0, Troll
    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.

  4. Re:what I'd like to see from Intel by Tumbleweed · · Score: 0, Troll

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

  5. One company placed a big order by HermanAB · · Score: 1, Troll

    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.

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  6. Re:Including businesses? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    No, it is true. However, it is also highly misleading, but that doens't make it false.

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