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Why AMD Is Still In The Race
Steve Kerrison writes "Despite a woeful inability to provide some of its most loyal customers with stock, and a range of CPUs that, currently, loses out to Intel's Core 2 processors in both price and performance (and who would I be not to mention the diminishing AMD fanboy numbers?), AMD's still got enough tricks up its sleeve to retaliate against Intel in due course. HEXUS.net has an opinion piece on why AMD isn't up the creek. From the article: AMD has been showing off its 65nm wafers for a few months now, which means the Rev G core is on its way. Even if the DDR2 memory controller which arrived with the Rev F only had a small performance benefit, Rev G has a few more improvements than just the die shrink. The latter will enable higher clock speeds and a lower price, plus allow AMD to compete on an equal playing field to Intel, which has been manufacturing 65nm processors since the Pentium XE 955 at the end of 2005."
The only reason you can buy a Core2 Duo for such a great price is because of the performance of AMD over the past few years.
AMD fanboy logic--even when Intel is beating AMD, it actually means AMD's better!
"Sufferin' succotash."
I am willing to sacrifice a few pecentage points worth of performance in exchange for buying from a [somewhat more] ethical company.
If you are not, you are part of the problem with industry today: the customer doesn't give a shit.
What a ridiculous, overbroad statement. Well - I take that back. If you apply that belief equally, in every facet of your life, then it is neither ridiculous nor overbroad.
That would mean that that you research each and every company you purchase from, for every item you purchase. It also means that you boycott radio and TV stations on the basis of their advertisers -- because surely you research all of the advertisers as well, to avoid consuming product that they are paying for. Likewise, you'd rather run out of gas and walk when the only nearby gas station is a supplier for an "unethical" oil company. Do you download RIAA-produced music? No? Do you purchase it? Either way you're supporting an unethical group of companies -- the only way to avoid it is not to listen to, download, or purchase ANY music from these sources (directly or indirectly).
The list goes on and on. What? You don't do all of these things? Then you must be the type of consumer who is part of the problem with industry today: you don't give a shit.
I advise against make sweeping generalizations based on your narrow frame of reference. Scratch that. I advise against making sweeping generalizations at all.