November 11th, 2004
Well I didn’t even consider Dell when buying my laptop because they didn’t offer an AMD Athlon 64 option. AMD technology is now cheaper, faster and better you would have to be a moron to buy Intel these days. AMD has the best x86 performance in the market (the best processor performance would probably go to the IBM G5 or PowerPC 970). Some of the best words from the article, “Intel, for obvious performance reasons, doesn’t publicly compare its processors with those from AMD.
At last year’s ClusterWorld conference in San Jose, Dave Jursik, IBM vice president of worldwide Linux cluster sales, said: “It was an important decision for us to adopt AMD’s technology, in addition to our longstanding relationship with Intel, which is still in place, by the way. But our customers demanded we come to market with AMD.”"