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To: Dan3 who wrote (226868)	2/26/2007 12:38:28 PM
From: Dan3	Respond to of 275872

The back inside cover of CRN has an ad for a pair of very well done PVR/home pc's based on AMD LIVE technology that ZT Technology is OEMing to distributors. They look like stereo equipment. No info on them is available on the zt web site. Model #'s are 8002Na 8001Ma They have HDMI outputs (and other standard home theatre outputs) use Athlon X2's and ATI TV wonder. One has an AMD chipset and the other has an Nvidia chipset.

To: Dan3 who wrote (226868)	2/26/2007 12:38:45 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Dan, > OTOH, we know that there was a gun to his head, and the finger on the trigger was Intel's. So now it's "Intel forced Sanders to testify in favor of Microsoft." What a crock. The only reason AMD testified is to get Microsoft to back AMD's 64-bit extensions. No one "forced him at gunpoint." By the way, these life-or-death analogies are ludicrous to the extreme. Tenchusatsu

To: Dan3 who wrote (226868)	2/26/2007 1:50:20 PM
From: UpNDown	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Dan3 on intel vs. Microsoft monopoly 100% of Microsoft's customers could switch overnight to Linux/Open Office, etc. if they really wanted. There would certainly be some pain, but there's nothing stopping that. What sort of monopoly is that? Intel's monopoly is different -- nobody else ever had the production capacity to replace Intel CPUs. If everybody stopped using Intel CPUs overnight, there wouldn't be enough capacity to make replacements. Even the switching of a single large OEM (say, Dell) would be unmanageable. AMD now has capacity to supply 30% of the market. Times are changing. Every quarter, AMD's capacity increases to cover a larger percentage of the market. Seems about 2% extra per quarter. If this continues, AMD will eventually have capacity to supply 50% of the market. Dell can now start using AMD processors without causing a complete meltdown in AMD's other channel supplies.