Dell to use AMD!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060518...8oEtbAF;_ylu=X3oDMTBhZDJjOXUyBHNlYwNtdm5ld3M-

"Dell Inc., the world's biggest personal computer maker, said on Thursday it would start using chips from Advanced Micro Devices Inc., sending shares of both companies higher, but Dell also said its quarterly profit fell 18 percent as growth slowed."

 

Holy ****
didn't see this comin'

 

its about time companys should always use the best chips not previous deals

 

Dell is basically commiting adultery against Intel... Maybe Michael's gone Mormon...

 

Wow. I figured this would come sooner or later. Dell is losing market share largely because they have not previously offered AMD chips. This is a no brainer for Dell and one they should have done a long time ago. One just has to look at the fact that Dell is losing market share and HP is gaining to see that the main reason for this is Dell has not been using AMD while HP has. I may have to actually consider a Dell when they come out with an AMD chip.

 

It is only in servers, but it is a good start.

 

Good news for AMD. But i dont think you'll see AMD's in their desktops just yet and not in the forseable future. Intel are cheaper then AMD's. Especially Duel Cores proc's. Any enthusiast who wants a AMD chip oviously knows a thing or two about whats better and so they will probably make their own computer with better components.

 

i point my finger and laugh at intel

 

I'm interested to see what happens to Dell, AMD, and Intel stock over the next week or so.

Only servers, true, but hopefully an X2 machine (desktop or laptop) in the future.

Chaz

 

I thought Dell had been using AMD chips in servers...

 

Nope, Dell had always been Intel only.. 'til now...

 

They sold AMD chips on their website, but not in the machines until now. Turions are not more expensive than Pentium Ms.

 

Predictably, AMD and Dell are up and Intel loses more ground. Just when you figured Intel couldn't possibly go lower, maybe they'll just go to zero. Criminy.

Great news for AMD though, this was going to happen eventually, just a matter of when not if. The server market is very, very different to the mobile market though, so this really doesn't mean a whole lot for notebook buyers.

 

I did. I have seen it coming for months now, and even predicted it. Dell started selling AMD chips, Dell said AMD-based PCs were possible. Yeah, I knew it was coming.

 

It makes total (financial) sense for this to happen. Many have wondered why it took this long. Dell's resistance to AMD had nothing to do with performance nor customer's needs; it had everything to do with pressure/pricing from Intel. Once the market forces overcame the Intel Only advantages (perhaps dis-advantages), any x86 CPU should do.

What surprised me is Steve Job's decision for Intel (some may call it x86) came waaay before Dell's selection of AMD. In the Apple's world, breaking away to another CPU architecture was "sacrilegious", and "hell freezes over". While Dell going AMD may muster a mere "pigs fly".

Well, the pigs are flying over the frozen landscape of hell. Interesting times ahead.

For me, I see the (desktop/notebook) world is transitioning to 64-bit and multithreading (dual/multi cores) during the next couple years. AMD64 has already led the way with servers. The 64-bit dual-core performance of AMD64 on Windows 2003 x64, Solaris x64, Linux x64, etc... are just fantastic. Noone would buy an AMD64 multi-core server and just put 32-bit single-thread softwares on it. Desktop and Notebooks will be on their way to 64-bit soon (inevitable), and apps are finally taking advantage of multithreading. 2007 will be the year for the masses to follow the server world.

The problem lies with owners of 32-bit systems. If you are planning to buy a notebook now and expect a 3 to 4 year life out of it, it needs at least to be 64-bit. Otherwise, the 64-bit transition years (2007, 2008) will surely shorten the life of your 32-bit notebooks.