Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 19:56:10 01/08/04
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On January 08, 2004 at 19:33:36, Tom Kerrigan wrote: >On January 08, 2004 at 09:50:07, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On January 07, 2004 at 22:17:32, Jeremiah Penery wrote: >> >>>On January 07, 2004 at 15:02:03, Robert Hyatt wrote: >>> >>>>I like true naming conventions. I have no problem choosing between a PIV >>>>3.0ghz xeon and an Opteron 2.0ghz. I'll take the opteron every time. I >>>>don't need to be "pseudo-coached" by fake ghz-equivalents... >>> >>>You are very far removed from the average Joe who walks into a Best Buy wanting >>>to buy a computer. >> >>You can hardly walk into one of our local Best Buy stores and buy an AMD-based >>machine. At Christmas, I saw exactly one AMD machine out of dozens that were >>on display... > >I think you might be exaggerating a little. Best Buy sells a lot of HP/Compaq >computers, and HPaq sells a lot of Athlons. At our local Best Buys I have no >problem finding Athlons. Out of curiosity, I counted the computers on Best Buy's >web site and 30% of the desktops are AMD (one was 64 bit) and 20% of the >notebooks are AMD. > >-Tom I'm only quoting what I saw open, on the shelves, running. My daughter was in the market, and asked me to go with her. I was looking specifically for AMD, just to see if there were any opteron boxes there. (or opteron derivatives such as FX51, etc.) The only thing I recall was an older Pavilion with an AMD something in it (not 64 bit). However, again, for the Opteron, after running on it, programming some assembly on it, etc, it is good enough to not remind everyone that looks at it that it is compared to Intel, 3400+mhz. Were I AMD, I'd start some new marketing about "opteron inside" or something related to make a name for this chip, which seems very good. Intel almost has to respond, of course. And their's _may_ be better when they do, if they do. But for the moment, at least speaking for my chess program, and a couple of other test applications I ran, _nothing_ from Intel can touch an opteron 2.0ghz (I did not run on 2.2's or beyond even though I was using hardware at AMD) so the gap is actually wider.
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