Slashdot Mirror
Dell Finally Goes for AMD
this great guy writes "You read it correctly. It had to happen one day.
According to Forbes
'Dell Inc has informed its Taiwan contract makers of plans to develop devices based on Advanced Micro Devices Inc's microprocessors, and these suppliers are awaiting orders for global shipment, the Economic Daily News reported, citing industry sources.'"
Finally! woohoo!
I read on a rumour site that they're going to switch the whole lineup to PowerPC.
The surefire indicater. Keep an eye on the ticker in the coming weeks, folks. $$$$ talks...., Watch where the money goes.
AMD sued because they couldn't market their product.
No other reason.
We all know AMD has superior technology and will continue to do so until well into 2006, but the REAL reason for the lack of sales is nothing more than a terrible marketing program.
Every one knows that high powered gaming runs better on AMD due to the old floating point. But to the average user, price is he only advantage. I dont do much gaming, I have both intel and amd machines. Doing the same things like ripping dvd's, they are equal in performance. The market wont see a performance boost from average users, and the majority of games, due to awesome graphics cards, dont see a performance boost on most games. Testing and baselining usually show amd out performing intel, but not to a drastic degree. Performance testing with actual users side by side is often not noticable by the users. Amazingly, AMD users always say their amd processes much better than their intels used to. Die hard intel people say the same thing. Preference bias runs deep and every amd person will say im crazy and every intel person will say im crazy. True performance to the user has shown nearly equal until you get to really high end processing like CAD and some upper tier games. But with games, the processors just arent as important as graphics cards which offload so much from the processors these days.
Good. Dell using AMD will free up some of the Intel CPU supply for Apple. Apple has a history of demanding more CPUs than their suppliers can provide. This move will help Intel provide the demand Apple will soon be generating.
Dell Sells around 40-50 million units per year, I think.
Intel & AMD probably sell 100 million computer chips per year, maybe.
Apple sells 4 million units in a good year. I don't think Apple really matters
in this equation much. Apple fans thinking otherwise is just delusions
of grandeur.
It's like saying that if my town stops filling petrol for a week, petrol prices
are going to drop.