http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=32374

Maybe the price cuts are good for making AMD media pc's?

I'm not seeing an advantage here.

Introducing... the new range of DELL Portable Blenders! With Intelligent AI Powered by AMD's newest 200MHz Ultra-Mobile Appliance CPU!

Gen 2 (which is still in testing, of course), will come with 1GB of on-board flash memory which will be used to store martini recipe. It is rumored that Dell is releasing a beta firmware update that will allow the blender to pour the beverage, as well.

Hey, as long as the joy stick is responsive and the LCD slow-mo replays of the bananas and strawberries bouncing off the walls are clear, it'll sell.

Dell's timing doesn't make much sense. On the heels of Conroe, which will give Intel the lead again, they are starting to switch over to more AMD processors!

Perhaps Dell knows something about Conroe that we do not. Perhaps Intel's 45nm process isn't doing so hot and Dell is worried about supply issues...

maybe intel pissed them away

Dell don't buy the best. They buy the cheapest. If intel don't give them prize discounts they ask AMD.

Apple and HP have seen woodcrest and choose it for the best workstations.

LOL I guess another sign of being a fanboy is they beleve anything that is in a ultra-credable news sourse like the the inquirer lol

Truer words were never spoken by the Inquirer.

Truer words were never spoken by the Inquirer.

It was probably just a random event, not necessarily intentional or coupled to coherent thought.

Why should they do that with AMDs processors being so vastly inferior?
They got their Opterons for their MP systems, thats all they need...

Maybe Core 2 is saddled with clean machine syndrome, where once you load up 1GB of programs you're using a slow P4. I don't know but the saying is

"If they buy your servers they will buy your desktop."

That's a quote from me BTW.

Vastly inferior to a chip you can't buy? Your name is a good question.

Why CON?

As AM2 mobos go through one or two more revs, you will see more improvements. In some cases maybe just a BIOS flash.

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=32374

Ummmm....

What's so surprising about this?

After all Dell does own Alienware, and Alienware does sell AMD PCs. How else would Alienware expand unless it sells more computers, that includes ones based on AMD CPUs.

Dell's market (semi- to totally-clueless home users) don't care about the fact that Conroe/Core2 is looking like it's going to pwn up for a few months at least, they care about what Dell sells them.

They are the reason behind the fact HyperThreading is shortened to 'HT Technology', we have 'Centrino Mobile Technology' instead of some processor mods and an 802 card etc...

If the AMD chips are cheaper, and Dell can squeeze a bit more of a profit out of them, then their marketing will have no problems with selling what's going to be an inferior product for a while.

(A magazine that the techiest of Dell users - still not 'proper' enthusiasts - read in this country managed to get away with calling the upcoming Intel chips Memeron and Crusoe this month. Shows how much home users care, I guess)

I see you spreading this FUD around frequently....It's very reminiscent of MMM's favorite catch-phrase about Conroe.....cache-thrashing.





PS. Any DELL is loaded with enough Bloatware to degrade performance,
whether it's AMD or Intel.

I sort of feel that this is the situation. First DELL decides to offer Opterons, then Intel says no more OEM discounts. So now, DELL knows AMD is getting worried about Core, and will jump at the chance to supply DELL, (even though they probably can't produce enough chips fast enough for DELL). I think DELL is basically trying to start a "bidding war" between Intel and AMD. They will likely settle(maybe a little down the road) back with Intel inside, and get back some of the discount that Intel denied them. If you think about it, DELL is in a GREAT position right now.

I know I'm one of those "totally clueless home users" that bought a Dell, so I'll conjur up a clueless-type idea... the idea of idea of an FX-62 in an, as usual, tightly cabled, aluminum Dell Metroplex, might not sound disgusting to someone looking for a mid-end, warranty-hav'n office-workstation-machine type cookie-cutter.

That's not my kind of idea... Hey, it's easy to be down on Dells or any other cook-by-number mail order PC but I think they have gotten better. We got our kids Dell laptops a couple of years ago and they still run fine. I do have to spend quite a bit of time maintaining them but I'm guessing that's because they get adware from places like wimp and funnyjunk. So I do pest patrol and other anti-spywares, clean up their hard drives, defrag, etc. Thing is, they get the job done and are capable machines for their homework and web research. I