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

To: tejek who wrote (96020)	3/1/2000 3:41:00 PM
From: ptanner	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571099

ted <Re zdnet's informal poll.....72% of those voting thought Intel was falling behind in the chip race. The word is getting out.> Web-based polls are very prone to being slammed by the proponents of one position, particularly underdogs. Apple (and its processors) used to dominate many polls due to a very active community. The "evangelist" mailing list went to a lot of people (100,000?) and they were apt to participate. Similar activity with the RC5 contests: Apple was a strong team because Apple users rallied to the team rather than other groups -- at least for a while. And then other affinity groups rallies their own participants (slashdot, anandtech). PT ps: I was still happy to see a 70%+ AMD ahead reponse on more than a thousand votes at 3:30 AM PST.