Though they may not want to admit it, Intel knows they've lost the 64-bit format war for desktops at least.
I wouldn't go so far as to say they've lost it. Its safe to say that 95% of the/. crowd is either running an amd64 chip, wants to run an amd64 chip, or at least considers them superior to Intel's offering, but 64-bit on the desktop is harldy a battle that has been won or lost. Intel has two pretty large allies in Microsoft and Dell, and when Longhorn finally comes out and 64 bit computing becomes more mainstream, you can bet that Dell, Microsoft, and Intel will be touting what a revolutionary new product they've come up with, as Dell market's Intel's inferior 64 bit chips, and 3/4 of the desktop market purchases them.
First time I've ever posted here, and I really knew what to expect from this thread, but I had to say this.
i've seen you post here before you anonymous coward.
but seriously, i can understand the switch. i am the only person in my office using openoffice.org (meaning 10% of our 10 person office), and i have run into problems interacting with others in the office who use microsoft's office. simple formatting issues sometimes come up, and macros in excel dont work as well in openoffice sometimes... this probably would have worked for the cops if they had switched the entire force to staroffice, but not just 5%. it really needs to be all or nothing to avoid being tripped up by mundane details.
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Otherwise we'd might as well add BEER PONG to the list of events.
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thats amazon you are thinking of
fair enough... my point was simply that /. is much more amd oriented than the rest of the world.
i think my signiture is also pretty applicable in this situation
Though they may not want to admit it, Intel knows they've lost the 64-bit format war for desktops at least.
/. crowd is either running an amd64 chip, wants to run an amd64 chip, or at least considers them superior to Intel's offering, but 64-bit on the desktop is harldy a battle that has been won or lost. Intel has two pretty large allies in Microsoft and Dell, and when Longhorn finally comes out and 64 bit computing becomes more mainstream, you can bet that Dell, Microsoft, and Intel will be touting what a revolutionary new product they've come up with, as Dell market's Intel's inferior 64 bit chips, and 3/4 of the desktop market purchases them.
I wouldn't go so far as to say they've lost it. Its safe to say that 95% of the
First time I've ever posted here, and I really knew what to expect from this thread, but I had to say this.
i've seen you post here before you anonymous coward.
but seriously, i can understand the switch. i am the only person in my office using openoffice.org (meaning 10% of our 10 person office), and i have run into problems interacting with others in the office who use microsoft's office. simple formatting issues sometimes come up, and macros in excel dont work as well in openoffice sometimes... this probably would have worked for the cops if they had switched the entire force to staroffice, but not just 5%. it really needs to be all or nothing to avoid being tripped up by mundane details.