Author: Sandro Necchi
Date: 07:56:13 12/12/04
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On December 12, 2004 at 08:58:43, Frank Quisinsky wrote: >On December 12, 2004 at 08:49:36, Sandro Necchi wrote: > >Hi, Hi, > >>Just for your info our expert was a Intel fun until one year ago...after >>replacing many units due to the hot summer we had last year and not facing the >>same problems on the AMD ones, he changed his mind... > >Understand, the questions is what for customers have the expert you have (very >important). If this dealer for sell more on private persons, I can understand >him, why not! Well, to be sincere (as always) most dealers here in Italy still push more Intel than AMD for the same reasons you mentioned, but this is really PAST. Today AMD is ahead and 32 bit is PAST too. It has been kept alive only because Microsoft has postponed the 64 bit windows otherwise no one would buy a 32 bit system anymore. On 64 bit systems with compatibility with 16 and 32 bit AMD has a huge advantage over Intel, so Intel must change completely his strategy to recover if they want and it will not be that easy... > >>Athlons 1.2 or 1.4 are 4 years old systems...they were the first ones...now the >>best processor based on performance and cost all together (Pc desktop) is the >>AMD K7 Athlon (Barton) 3000+ >> >>If you take any Pc games magazine they report this... > >This is right but never forget ... a customer which one time have bigger >problems with a hardware will never forget it. > >Look, the Pentium III is the best processor in all the time (after the >statistics I know, of course today not to the topic "power"). It is true, but Intel "kept dreaming" too much on these while the competition work a lot... > >This is a big advantage for Intel, also the Celeron systems works fine without >any problems since many years ... the next advantage. This is true also, but in the last 3 years at least AMD is reliable at least the same and cheaper...the customers (most of them) wants something cheap and working. Only a few people buy duals or very fast processors to get the top. > >In this area we speak about computers the most have no interest on Celeron >processors :-) but for how many users is a fast comptuer really important? If you want to play Pc games, yes! If you want to play chess, yes! (Ins't so nice to be killed in 30 moves rather than in 40?)...:-)) If you use the computer to write letters and for Internet, no. > >My favorite is my Pentium III 550 MHz with Intel system board and 384 MB Rambus >800 MHz Ram. I have installed XP and the OS works relly fast. I can see not a >different if I write a letter or look a little bit on webpages / fora / mails. Yes, I understand, but to me SPEED is everything with computers, so it always looks slow...maybe a 8 processors 10 GHz will be fast enough...for chess:-) > >Best >Frank Ciao Sandro
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