User: Fire Princess

Re:Intel Dominance

On: Transmeta Powered High-End Portable?

Note to newbies: "trust me on this one" generally means the poster has
no clue.

"Intel Inside" is a multi-year, billion dollar marketing campaign that
yes, has a big effect on large corporate accounts. The primary reason
that Intel dominates the non-white-box market (i.e. branded machines)
is their co-marketing program. Large corporate accounts care about
things like (a) will you be around in 10 years and (b) can your
service organization really handle if you get 10.000 new users in a
single customer account, spread over 40 countries.

Intel has been good over the years at seeding FUD (fear, uncertainty,
doubt) in terms of compatibility. AMD is the only alternate player
left standing (and they were the first, too).

But in any case this is not relevant for the Transmeta issue. They are
explicitly targeting highly portable, MSFT software compatible
solutions (i.e. x86 "PC"). In this particular case we are talking
about the high-end PDA segment, which is in any case discretionary for
large corporations. They will tend to say things like "everybody
should use XP by such-and-such a date". And oqo will do that. So in
this case they are perfectly big-company compatible.