

Patches appear to solve many of the affected machines' crippling problems






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RE: Dell is the new Compaq
By The0ne on 12/4/2009 10:04:40 AM , Rating: 2
It was a partnership of Dell and Intel. Dell could say whatever the hell they wanted for excuses but it still came down to the fact that they both kissed each others behind. It wasn't until AMD starting gaining enthusiasm from the public and Dell started losing money that they offered any type of AMD PC configuration. By then I think some consumers were already hurt but their initial decisions.

RE: Dell is the new Compaq
By bennyg on 12/4/2009 11:51:03 PM , Rating: 2
and by those decisions, they bought products that contained inferior chips.

Since P4-M, AMD's mobile lines have been consistently trounced by Merom onwards in all aspects.

At least in desktop consumer CPUs they compete well in the budget and low-end-multicore segments but then only because they make way less margin than Intel.

That is why there are so few AMD CPUs in laptops aside from bribery, antitrust etc.. Why bother with R&D on a product noone's gonna buy?

RE: Dell is the new Compaq
By Alexvrb on 12/5/2009 4:35:54 PM , Rating: 2
Yeah except that AMD is very competitive in budget laptops. Budget laptops don't have discrete graphics. Most of the cheaper Intel laptops use Intel chipsets. Therefore, a cheap AMD laptop is a better performer with regards to graphics. In the entry level laptop market, I'd take a Radeon 3100/4100 or 3200/4200 over the GMA4500 series any day. Even the GMA4500MHD falls significantly behind a 3100.

This is important if you're buying an inexpensive first laptop for a teen, who might be playing some games at low settings on it. Keeps them off the more powerful machine so you can hog it, anyway.

