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To: Elmer Phud who wrote (266924)	4/18/2011 9:20:44 PM
From: SonnyListon	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 275872

Of course FPG has a WalMart mentality, he bought a Turdion laptop after all. So he can't understand why people don't want to get stuck with crappy systems. AMD was largely reliant on VIA chipsets back then and they were terrible. One of my friends bought a Duron @ 700mhz with an Asus VIA chipset and it gave him no end of trouble and because back then neither of us knew that much about how bad VIA were, he just attributed the problems directly to AMD and got rid of his system and bought a P4 instead. It is not hard to see why Dell were worried about people associating crap systems with them. Dell has to look out for their reputation, not fight some fanboy ideological war, where Dell is on the side of the noble AMD.

To: Elmer Phud who wrote (266924)	4/19/2011 12:23:39 AM
From: fastpathguru	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 275872

Perhaps you might explain why AMD's top Sales executive said these things about AMD: I personally can EASILY interpret these internal quotes from Henri Richard, "top AMD sales exec", that are all about image and perception as being intended to fire up the sales ARM of AMD, i.e. marching orders to change the false perception. It's not a stretch. See? I don't have to run and hide behind excuses like "cherry picking" and "inadequate context." It's also consistent with every other thread of support for Intel abusing their monopoly... It's no secret that AMD struggles with a perception issue, fed in great part by good folks like you who grossly overstate AMD problems and understate/ignore Intel's. Now, how do YOU resolve the inconsistency between the side of your mouth questioning these quotes, and the other side of your mouth that keeps saying, "When AMD has superior products, they profit?" (Except in the case of winning DELL, who was incapable of building AMD systems to meet stated customer demand, for every reason BUT the $6B Intel paid DELL for their, in your words, "loyalty." But not exclusivity, oh no!) LOL. fpg