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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Elmer who wrote (87475)	1/16/2000 8:59:00 AM
From: Elmer	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572507

Found this interesting article from years ago. Remind anybody of anything? zdnet.com EP

To: Elmer who wrote (87475)	1/16/2000 2:17:00 PM
From: GlobalMarine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572507

<<Yet when AMD wages the price war you package it so nicely and just say "less expensive>> AMD has no choice but to complete in terms of both quality of product (the Athlon is a superior CPU) and price, in order to make headway into the marketplace given Intel's monopolistic practices. It wasn't easy for me to decide to build the Athlon computer I'm typing this message on. With Intel bullying MB manufacturers (oh, you didn't get our shipment of processors and chipsets? Let me check with accounting) only a handful of manufacturers are brave enough souls to support Athlon, and even then they put their Athlon MB's in plain white boxes and don't advertise them on their websites. I decided on Gigabyte since that's what official Athlon benchmarks are conducted on. Oh, and the system is rock-solid stable too, more so than a pee-wee 3 according to at least one MB reviewer.