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Dell Still Intel Only
wyckedone writes "Dell Computers has no plans to offer the new dual-core AMD Opteron even though it has been proven that "Opteron's integrated memory controller and multiple Hypertransport interconnects help it outperform Intel's Xeon processor on many benchmarks, especially those that measure the performance of memory-intensive applications.". HP, IBM and Sun Microsystems have all announced that they are going to release servers based on the new AMD chip. Why not offer customers an alternative that has better performance instead of risking the lose of those customers to another vendor that does? Intel has no plans to release a dual-core Xeon until 2006."
You, sir, are correct. One of the most insightful explanations that I have read can be found here, in an article entitled "Dell and AMD." Worth a read, even for an article that is two months old.
"-1 Troll" is the apparently the same as "-1 I disagree with you."
We used dell hardware (windows enviornment) for 2 years, and switched right back to HP.
The hard drives constantly crashed, raid never worked, and restoring from tape during production time was constant. Parts were never available, and the constant response from their help desk was "flash the bios" or "flash the firmware" when it pertained to nothing that was going on.
At one point they were just sending us new servers for free to fix the broken ones. Note: Those new ones then broke constantly as well.
I think there are plenty of other reasons to switch from dell than a lack of an AMD chip in a server.
(note: I do like dell workstations and home PCs and laptops... just not their servers)
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I only came here to do two things; kick some ass, and drink some beer...looks like we're almost out of beer.
Training production and support staff
Additional inventory storage: motherboards, CPUs, fans
Multiple BIOS
Adjustments to tech support website to make sure the average home PC user can easily find the right updates All these issues, and likely many more, must be addressed when expanding your product offering. You also need to look at where Dell makes their money. Do companies buy AMD based systems? I haven't switched jobs in a while but my current and previous employers were exclusively Intel for the MS Win32 systems.