What I think is beside the point. What businesses think - and buy - IS the point.
I don't own, and have never owned, a computer that used any CPU besides an Intel chip since I bought a Mac for college back in 1988, so I can't personally comment on the reliability of AMD chips.
What a coincidence - the Celeron 300 A I have at home, overclocked to 450, is also more stable and reliable than either the Pentium 200 MMX or the Pentium Pro I have at work. Of course, I am running completely different OSs and applications on my work machines compared to the one I have at home, so the comparison isn't valid.
If a solid, respectable box make introduces a business line based on an AMD chip, customers won't think twice about buying it.
Well, I agreed with you when you said this in your first post, Kevin, so I guess I'll agree with you again here. But I see by the 'If' you put at the beginning of the statement that you agree with me that AMD isn't there yet.
Which is MY point.
IF AMD is reliable and IF AMD is service-oriented and IF AMD chips are rock-solid stable and IF AMD chips flawlessly run every OS, NOS, application, and hardware-peripheral on the market, THEN they'll be selling hardware to the business VARs and OEMs by the truckload.
But...they...are...not...there...yet.
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