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

To: Cory Gault who wrote (96397)	3/2/2000 6:51:00 PM
From: DRBES	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571798

re: "I know it is probably against your religion to buy anything with Intel in it...but why not get what you need rather than compromise." You are probably correct at least until sometime after this summer but I may be forced, out of genuine need to buy an inteL (UGH!) based machine. Barring that: If I were running WinNT 4 or Win2k Pro, which laptops would be appropriate? I know very few vendors have provided the necessary APM drivers for NT in the past, but this is becoming less of an issue because of the release of Win2k (I assume Win2k has APM/ACPI support). The unit would be primarily used for programming (much of the time file-editing in the IDE in VC++), and Word Processsing -- both take advantage of power-management extensively. I almost bought a Toshiba Portege in the past because it had 4+ hours battery life (STANDARD BATTERY!), and had the power management drivers for NT. Would a Portege (or possibly a Tecra) be a good choice now too? What do you recommend? Dell? Gateway? Compaq <::shiver::> ? Regards, DARBES

To: Cory Gault who wrote (96397)	3/2/2000 7:35:00 PM
From: Brian Hutcheson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571798

You still believe in Intel reliability after the last year of dropped bits and other errata ? For your Info , AMD has better reliability than Intel E.g.ALL AMD flash memory is guaranteed a min. of a million write ops compared to Intel's 100K . That is why Cisco chose AMD flash for the majority of its switches . Come to think of it you are probably comunicating using some of that flash . If you like to buy shares in a $350B company rather than a $6B company that is pressuring them , that is your choice . But please don't try to persuade others who have a different viewpoint . I suggest that you and all the other Intel fans (some are FAN atics) follow the advice of this well known analysts :- (Dan Niles) On competition between Intel and AMD: "Everybody always wants it to be either-or, but you can own both. Intel's very focused on corporate America and Windows 200 and AMD's more focused on the consumer market. "It's always amusing how people always want to turn it down to one guy or the other. the answer is, you can own a bunch of them and make a lot of money. It's not a zero-sum game in almost any space. "How many Internet companies are there? Your ZDNet readers love to read about the Internet, but I don't see any of 'em saying AOL's gonna rule the entire world, so I want to sell 'em all. You've got, I don't know how many Internet companiees public now, what, 300 or 400? You've got what, two big microprocessor vendors? Seems like a lot easier to invest when you have two guys than when you have 300 and you really have no idea what's going to happen. On choosing companies to cover: "They're all in the technology area and they all cover different parts of it. You don't buy semiconductors, you buy systems, so if you can figure out which systems you think are going to do well in the coming years it gives you a better idea of what semiconductor companies to recommend. "The problem is, you don't want to be defined too narrowly. If all you cover is semiconductors how do you know what's going on in the computer hardware industry? Are you better off listening to Intel or are you better off listening to the customers? I believe that the customers are the ones who buy the product. I'd much rather listen to Dell and Compaq (NYSE: CPQ) because they're the ones who know what's going on." 22GO