Another article on Micron's Duron systems - this one from the PCWOrld. I'm posting the link here because, the article contains a couple of direct quotes Micron officials.
Credits: bush_whacker_smacks_it_silly, Yahoo AMD board
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MicronPC.com Ships Duron System
Vendor embraces AMD, seeks retail success with Best Buy.
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Until now, the company has shipped only Intel processor-based systems. The Duron system is its first with an AMD product, and others will soon follow, says Paul Petersen, area vice president of product marketing. The company will also continue to offer a full line of Intel-based products, he says.
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Less Intel Inside
MicronPC.com's decision to embrace AMD isn't the first time the company has strayed from its all-Intel roots. Last year it was among the first to announce it would avoid Intel's 820 chip set and the set's expensive RDRAM memory requirements. Instead, Micron opted to combine Intel's latest Pentium III processors with the Via Technology Apollo Pro 133A chip set, which also supported the chip's faster 133-MHz front-side bus but used the less-expensive PC-133 SDRAM memory.
"It was the right decision, and we were rewarded in the market," Petersen says. This year, the company was faced with deciding whether it should give AMD a try, he says. Based on AMD's strong processor technology, and its commitments to memory standards other than RDRAM, MicronPC.com decided to partner with AMD, he says. [comment: RAMBUS is our friend :-) ]
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For Intel fans, the company continues to offer Celeron- and Pentium III-based products, Petersen says.
However, Gotcher points out that the Celeron-based systems in the same price range as the RS2150A--the direct-only Millennia EX and the retail RS2000--don't perform as well as the Duron-based system. The company's benchmark tests show the RS2150A performs as much as 25 percent better than the comparable-speed Celeron systems, he says.
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