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Dell to Use AMD Chips in its Servers
garfangle writes "Dell has decided to include AMD's Opteron processor in its product line of servers. This is the first time Dell has used AMD chips within its own Dell branded products (excluding the recently acquired Alienware computers)." From the News.com article: "The deal appears to be confined to servers at this point. The news came along with the release of Dell's earnings results, which were in line with the disappointing warning the company provided last week. Revenue was $14.2 billion, up 6 percent from last year, but net income slid 18 percent to $762 million. Several times during the last few years, Dell CEO Kevin Rollins has hinted that the company was right around the corner from introducing products based on AMD's chips."
How about ditch a Mac and get a debian box. Macs don't use their own OS or even their own nitche processors anymore. Why are we even calling them the same things. Only difference now is macs are pretty and cost too much. Moral of the story if you want to game get windows box with a amd processor and if you want to do anything else use linux. HIGHJACKED
The apocalypse is nigh? You've got that right. The way things are shaping up, we have a pretty clear picture of who the four horsemen are: AMD, Intel, Microsoft, and Apple.
War: Microsoft
Pestilence: Intel (or Intel is Pollution if you believe that Pestilence retired after the advent of penicillin)
Famine: Apple
Death: AMD
Linux, is, of course, God himself. Or Linus is. (In the symbolic interpretation, Linux and Linus are often conflated.) The mark of the beast is obviously RFID.
Everything fits! Better buy up some property in Montana or Idaho and start building your self-sustaining end-of-the-world compound.
I got my Linux laptop at System76.