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**Well spank my arse and call me Charlie** Dell close to adopting AMD chips
- Thread starter NFS4
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Dell is not expecting, however, to put the AMD chips into desktop PCs, Rollins said.
"If we basically sucked up all of AMD's [manufacturing] capacity it would not be enough. They don't have enough capacity for us to use them on the desktop. For us, fundamentally, AMD is much more interesting in the server, workstation or gaming arenas," Rollins explained.
"If we basically sucked up all of AMD's [manufacturing] capacity it would not be enough. They don't have enough capacity for us to use them on the desktop. For us, fundamentally, AMD is much more interesting in the server, workstation or gaming arenas," Rollins explained.
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gsellis
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Maybe you should consider Shave Ice sales...Originally posted by: NFS4
Originally posted by: gsellis
Per topic title, err.... No thanks.
Oh come on!!!!!! :laugh:
linkage
BUT, back to topic, it will be nice to have a better choice from Dell.
Adul
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dont think I will be spanking you, that is what your GF is for.
But if you want us to call you cahrlie, sure
But if you want us to call you cahrlie, sure
I would rather see Dell adopt AMD for their mobile solutions. The AMD Athlon 64 mobile has pretty good power management for laptop.s
LTC8K6
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But, but, but......there's a conspiracy between Dell and Intel to keep AMD down! Intel will severely punish Dell for even talking about such a thing and trying to break up the devil's pact between them. The giant thug Intel will not allow Dell to use anyone else's chips, period. So it's clear that this whole idea and story is bogus. Soon that Dell person will be found dead in the street, "suicide".
I know, I know! I know the real reason.
Prescotts keep catching on fire in Dell computers, thus forcing them to use AMD chips.
I know, I know! I know the real reason.
Prescotts keep catching on fire in Dell computers, thus forcing them to use AMD chips.
what? pm better for notebooks
also while i do run amd desktops and will do so for a while i wouldnt want a dell even if they came with athlons.
If Dell even just used AMD in the highest end gaming line, at least it'd reduce the "amd cant be good, dell dont use them" from the noobies.
Sceptics might assume it's renewal time for perfectly legal and valid private agreements about priority supplies, discounts and advertising subsidies. 'Diplomatic' pressure is useful, but testing the waters for the alternative options is a bonus advantage not expected to be the real benefit.
Sceptics might assume it's renewal time for perfectly legal and valid private agreements about priority supplies, discounts and advertising subsidies. 'Diplomatic' pressure is useful, but testing the waters for the alternative options is a bonus advantage not expected to be the real benefit.
Fern
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Originally posted by: Abhi
Dell is not expecting, however, to put the AMD chips into desktop PCs, Rollins said.
"If we basically sucked up all of AMD's [manufacturing] capacity it would not be enough. They don't have enough capacity for us to use them on the desktop. For us, fundamentally, AMD is much more interesting in the server, workstation or gaming arenas," Rollins explained.
Yeah, but it's good start if it actually happens. Who knows, wierder sh*t has happened.
Fern
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VirtualLarry
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Originally posted by: LTC8K6
But, but, but......there's a conspiracy between Dell and Intel to keep AMD down! Intel will severely punish Dell for even talking about such a thing and trying to break up the devil's pact between them. The giant thug Intel will not allow Dell to use anyone else's chips, period. So it's clear that this whole idea and story is bogus. Soon that Dell person will be found dead in the street, "suicide".
I know, I know! I know the real reason.
Prescotts keep catching on fire in Dell computers, thus forcing them to use AMD chips.
There is a conspiracy, yes, but not quite like that. It's like, those companies that publically declare that they are "investigating Linux for a desktop rollout". What happens? MS gives them the red-carpet treatment, and offers then all kinds of discounts, in order to stay onboard the MS ship.
Same thing here - as the holiday buying season approaches, Dell wants more discount concessions from Intel, and most likely they'll get them. But Dell won't ship any system with AMD CPUs in them, not this year, and probably not for several more, as long as Intel is still "king of the x86 microprocessor jungle" that is.
Its a matter of staying competitive. On the server side I don't think Dell can afford to sit idle while its competition releases Opteron systems with 64bit Linux and kick Dell's a$$ in performance. When MS finally releases 64bit Windows Server, Dell would really be behind the 8 ball as the Xeon implementation of AMD 64 lags behind the Opteron. Its all about the benjamins.
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Just had some Dell reps at my company today...
They have an AMD Opteron Server, built and ready to ship, he said they built it to hold it over Intel's head, and that, unless they get the response that they want from Intel here pretty soon, then they are going live with this AMD product, and it will be launched 2nd quarter of next year.
They have an AMD Opteron Server, built and ready to ship, he said they built it to hold it over Intel's head, and that, unless they get the response that they want from Intel here pretty soon, then they are going live with this AMD product, and it will be launched 2nd quarter of next year.
This is one place Intel still beats AMD.
They won't be able to use AMDs in desktops or notebooks for quite some time. AMD wouldn't have the capacity to keep up with Dell's business model. Intel can. It's not like they keep a warehouse full of CPUs. Dell doesn't buy them until you buy them.
The people that cry that AMD is so much better than Intel for gaming is so overhyped. The normal gamer isn't going to notice a difference. You have to benchmark to see the difference.
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