<< I'm thinking of Patrick Mahoney. Intel wouldn't give out an engineering sample regardless of the argument, even if I could make a compelling argument that it was cause AMD to disappear. >>
lol
If you could make AMD disappear I think that would be a pretty convincing reason 😉
Hell, if you could make AMD disappear forever they may just give you a lifetime supply of unlocked processors!
On second thought they might just prefer VIA to drop dead, it would certainly save them huge in legal fees.
Either that or kidnap someone that' running a major tech site and steal one of their engineering samples.... 🙂
Or if you want to go the legal route, as kidnapping and stealing isnt exactly a viable option you could become a mainboard designer, design core logic chipsets.... etc.
Those would be good reasons to get you one for testing purposes. 😀