I will assert that my website covers AMD much more often than it covers other topics. I have various reasons for this, but I think you're very mean if you're grouping me with websites like AMDZone or VIA Hardware which (while often outputting quality material) do not hesitate to insult the competition of their focus at every turn.
I'm not sure I ever said "GEE WIZ" or "Oh Man I Can't Wait" on my website
---Oh Really???? Pretty Damn Close.....
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"So THERE YOU ARE, AMD! I've been looking all over for you for the past ten months! For that long, another evil company which doesn't do cool demos and doesn't really release new products has been using your name and taking your profits, but I'm very happy to see that you've found yourselves again and now have the chance to really impress us."
"It's been a while since AMD really made me salivate with respect to performance boosts of new processors and platforms. With all the gradual improvements, there was no room for slam-bang boosts that could blow us away". But this ... this thing here ... is awesome. At least, according to these guys, this new platform grants a performance boost of 142.5% (that's 2.425x as fast) compared to the AMD760. That totally kicks ass
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Okay, this is probably the most interesting thing I've seen this entire millennium so far (save for Willem Dafoe). It's a little copper doodad that allows a heatsink to have contact over the entire surface of an Athlon or Duron......
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This is likely a bit of total bunk, but there's a rumour going around that the rumoured Monday release of the 1.3xGHz Athlon will actually be the introduction of a new stepping which allegedly draws only 46W (not necessarily the 1.3xGHz one, though -- the rumour is that vague).
If there is even a thread of truth in this, then my interest has been raised.
So, a few weeks ago AMD totally caught us off guard with their Duron-850 release. Out of the blue, man. Out of the blue. How could they possibly follow up on this? Well, there's a weak rumour going about that AMD may be kind enough to give us a 1.30GHz (and/or 1.27GHz/1.33GHz?) Athlon as early as next week, cementing their current hold on the speed (speed as in performance, not as in clock frequency, of course) crown for at least a little bit longer.
But AMD isn't going to get all the glory! There is, of course, one x86 cpu manufacturer who will stop at nothing until they have wiped the smirk off of Jerry and Dirk's (Sanders and Meyer .. you know, AMD's head cheese and the shouldabe heir to that throne -- I see Ruiz as sort of a Grand Vizier of sorts) respective faces.
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Oooh, note, Sony has a VAIO Duron.
Taken from the SI:AMD thread.
IN CONTRAST:
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By the way, Gateway is now among those selling 1.30GHz P4 systems.
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"Okay, first up, Johan put up a monumentally interesting exposé on the Pentium 4. There here article goes in-depth into matters pertaining to the cache and memory subsystem of the P4."
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This article covered a bit of Intel's licensing to chipset makers. Currently, ATI and ServerWorks have licenses to build P4 chipsets while VIA, Acer, and Micron are reportedly working on it.
---Gee, I don't know WHERE I could have gotten my "Mistaken" impression. How silly of me.
"I would more properly claim that I am totally unbiased in everything in the universe, but then again, everybody would like to make that claim, wouldn't they?
--- I'm not concerned about "everything in the universe", and the difference is, that "everybody" doesn't write a High Tech Related newsboard, quoted all over the internet.
I am a good person, and I participate wherever I'm welcome. But I have my limits, and those limits are very, very shallow, unfortunately.
--- The problem with that is.... You have set yourself up as a mouthpiece for computer related topics, and by picking and choosing to only be "wherever you are welcome" as you do, gives the perception of favoritism.
"In addition, regardless of the commentary attached, the folks in the AMD threads are particularly aggressive in posting both good and bad Intel news"
--- Bull, the only Intel News that is posted by the regular AMDers on that board, is for the specific purpose of bashing intel. The only so called "Good News" is posted by people who are well known on this board, to favor intel.
That word, "AMDroid", is really rude. I don't like being grouped into a stereotype which isn't even accurate for 90% of its members. I also grew up trained to have people make fun of me because I am a "computer nerd". You seriously hurt me by saying that.
--- Tuff Noogies. If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. And if you can't see that the term DOES apply
to 90% of the people on that board, then your even more guilty of favoritism than I thought.
I am certainly biased in favor of intel, but at least I know it.
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