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Dell Rejects AMD Chips (again)
LarsWestergren writes "A few months ago Slashdot reported that Dell was considering using AMD for server CPUs, but most people rightly remained sceptical since Dell has announced this several times before and always backed out. Well, according to the Register you were right to be sceptical." From the article: "Dell, however, doesn't seem concerned by these pricing issues or the fact that Opteron outperforms Xeon on numerous benchmarks. 'We believe that Intel has responded,' Rollins said in the wire report. 'That is now beginning to put customers more at ease that they don't need to make a shift (to AMD).'"
i have a feeling this whole thing was about dell trying to get a better deal on chips from intel by threatening to start buying some amd. same old crap...
Large print giveth, and the small print taketh away
Someone who makes the final decisions at Dell, maybe even Michael himself, is getting paid top dollars by Intel(and of course by Microsoft). This is the one and only one explanation that Dell keeps turning down AMD and trying to turn down the thousand of users who simply want to buy computers and not computers with illegally bundled Microsoft software.
The only good thing about Dell is that they are finally obeying the law and giving windows refunds if you ask for it.
- Intel has becomed a supplier. Thus Dell get special prices
- When buyers of big amounts complain about AMD price, Intel always bend and give Dell a better price (we've experienced this atleast once as a buyer).