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Dell Might do AMD
mboverload writes "In a move that will surely make waves in the industry, Dell's CEO, Kevin Rollins, has said they may provide machines decked out with AMD CPU's if their customers really want them. "We are still looking at AMD; they have fairly good technology," said Rollins. "
I have an AMD box that I put a video-capture card into and I wouldn't be able to capture more than a few minutes of video before the system would either lock-up or spontaneously reboot.
I put the same card into a box with an Intel Celeron and it works perfectly.
I'm typing this message on yet another AMD box I have and it occasionally locks up, reboot or displays blue-screen messages. I think it has something to do with AMD.
[ There's a big problem with using AMD chips] A FAT COCK IN YOUR ARSE
FAT cock? At least we know it's not yours, twig-dick.
You don't get to be the #1 computer vendor of all time by selling shit. Gateways are shit. Ergo, they were top dog at one point, now they are slag.
Minus the tremendous abuse our Latitudes suffered at the hands of their users and a bad batch of Optiplexes, Dells reign supreme at my office.
what in the heck are you doing buying any off the shelf board to use with expensive scsi cards? if you arent buying a pro workstation/server grade board then dont expect it to act like one. expensive scsi needs pcix, something you dont find on a board down at compusa/bestbuy/etc....
your arguement has to be the most assinine thing i have seen on slashdot in a while, which is saying something.
Dell? Large market share? You've got to be fucking kidding! HP has the largest market share by far. They had their own large market share and then they acquired Compaq who was already huge. Dell is small fry next to HP. Gateway is the only other VAR who is lower in stature. Don't give me this bullshit market share claim. It's meaningless.
Who cares. Your opinion really doesnt matter.
The info in that link cannot be trusted. Dell is a miserable failure of a company. They fail to understand the importance of R&D and instead focus on buying or licensing technologies from smaller firms. This is a recipe for disaster in the long run. When you buy technology from companies rather than build your own, the chance of you or your staff actually undestanding it are very slim. This leads to terrible service and support. Horrible service in an epidemic these days. The people who knew how to run things were Digital Equipment Corporation. They put all of their money into R&D and the company was mostly engineers. This is the way a technology company should be run. As soon as you get sales folks and non-engineering tech support in, you lose. The problem is that American consumers are stupid enough to accept shoddy products (witness Microsoft Windows, Sun Microsystems, and Intel). They may have really big sales, but their products stink to high heaven. And as soon as they completely stamp out their competition, you have no choice but to rely on their crap. The problem with most technology companies today is that they are run by slickster business men, not engineers. The way it should be: The engineers run the entire shop and dictate to the suits how they should be doing their job. Suits don't make unrealistic promises that result in shoddy products being pushed out the door for a profit. Instead, quality is the main focus. Even if the product doesn't do as much as a competitor, it does what it does well and without error or confusion on the part of the user. Then this company works hard at making sure that customers know that when they buy the product, they are getting the best possible product for their money. They are guaranteed 100% quality. DEC had this in the Alpha chip and OpenVMS. These were products that were expensive, but "just worked". There were no failures or security compromises on VMS systems running on Alphas. Buffer overflows were impossible on the Alpha. They had 64-bit capability long before anyone else and they even had a prototype Alpha laptop that I saw once back in the early 90s. They produced. Today's technology company only promises and misses deadlines. Dell is the direct antithesis to DEC. And Dell should die a horrible death. People MUST be informed of the poor quality and value that Dell provides in its systems.