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Subject: Re: diep tested at dual core AMD/INTEL

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 05:50:52 04/29/05

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On April 29, 2005 at 07:43:13, Kurt Utzinger wrote:

>On April 28, 2005 at 20:02:10, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>
>[...ยจ]
>>Intel has simply lost the performance battle until start of 2007 for
>>desktopprocessors and objective comparisions like these show it real clear.
>>
>>Even if intel comes by end 2006 with a good replacement for the P4, by then
>>every normal computer user will realize that intel sucks and AMD is fast, so the
>>damage intel has done to itself in the desktop market is one of long term.
>[...]
>
>     For the average PC user this all is of no interest. To
>     work with Word & Co. a PC 486 would still do the same
>     job. And so the damage Intel has done to itself does
>     not count much because only few people require (or mean
>     to require) a top speed computer.
>     Kurt

But the public will still opt for AMD because they do not like to hear they are
using a slow P4.



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