AMD Sweeps All 30 PC Systems in PC Advisor Charts

AGodspeed

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http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/news/print_news.cfm?NewsID=1819

In what may prove to be an industry landmark, all the systems in the three PC Advisor desktop PC charts feature processors from just one manufacturer for the first time.

When the February issue of the magazine hits retailers' shelves this time next week (20 December) all 30 PCs from our Power, Budget and Superbudget categories, will show off an AMD processor.

Even a year ago it would have been unthinkable to see an Intel-less desktop PC chart.


Wow, this is big news. I've seen some PCWorld charts where Athlon systems dominated the power lists, but they never swept all of them. And it's unheard of for it to take the middle and budget crowns as well. All I can say is wow!
 

Pabster

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Shouldn't be a big shock.

AMD has held an incredible price/performance advantage for years. With the recent XPs, AMD not only holds the performance advantage, but also has the price advantage. You just can't go wrong.

I've noticed (albeit slowly) more and more editors at the ZD publications making their way to recommending AMD-based machines. Still plenty of FUD out there, but they're making progress.

(Like the ATI tech man who told me a 1900+ XP just 'wasn't enough' for real-time MPEG-2 encoding at 720x480. He didn't quite know what to say when I told him it had no trouble doing so, but that my 1.8GHz P4 was dropping anywhere from 8 to 15 percent of the total frames with identical hardware.)
 

Pariah

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This is a British publication. AMD has always done well in Europe. Look at the current 30 they have, 29 of them are by makers I have never heard of. The one I have is NEC, and they don't sell PC's in the US. This feat will not be duplicated in the US any time soon with major vendors like Dell and Gateway not selling AMD at all.