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AMD Cuts X2 Processor Prices
BDPrime writes "AMD is cutting prices for its X2 processors, according to an update on its microprocessor pricing list. The cuts refer to AMD's Athlon 64 FX and Athlon 64 X2 chips. Some of the price cuts are almost in half."
I get it now!!!! The lawsuit between Intel and AMD is just sleazy advertising for AMD!! Why didn't I see it sooner!! Thank you Richard Dawkings!!!
Make SELinux enforcing again!
At least before the price cuts, there was simply no way I would even consider an AMD CPU, after Intel got Core 2 Duo up and running.
Why even consider Intel? They're only relevant for the same reason as Micro$oft - right place, right time, and then gave IBM fellatio. (I especially love the claim that Intel invented the microprocessor. TI was at least two years ealier, but that's a story left to judicious reading of Wikipedia.)
Fat and stupid CISC design. Little Endian. Built a modern architecture on a house of cards (64k page limit). x86 interrupt handling could only be improved by a 14-year-old with a soldering iron and a box of relays. It's as gross and as much of a hatchet-job as Windows: Stupid, ugly, and so mass-produced that we're stuck with it.
AMD could double their prices, and there'd still be some people (like me) who would happily choose the organization which copied an asinine design for commercial purposes... instead of the organization which was responsible for the mess to begin with.
Never mind me, though. Intel might be perfectly right... hell, they might even employ a non-retard or two. It's just that I've been forced to program in assembly for their nightmares - it ain't exactly a TMS9900 or a Motorola 68000.
Fire and Meat. Yummy.
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