  Patches appear to solve many of the affected machines'
crippling problems       Comments     Threshold   RE: Dell is
the new Compaq By The0ne on 12/4/2009 10:04:40 AM , Rating: 2 It
was a partnership of Dell and Intel. Dell could say whatever the
hell they wanted for excuses but it still came down to the fact
that they both kissed each others behind. It wasn't until AMD
starting gaining enthusiasm from the public and Dell started
losing money that they offered any type of AMD PC configuration.
By then I think some consumers were already hurt but their
initial decisions.  RE: Dell is the new Compaq By bennyg on
12/4/2009 11:51:03 PM , Rating: 2 and by those decisions, they
bought products that contained inferior chips.  Since P4-M,
AMD's mobile lines have been consistently trounced by Merom
onwards in all aspects.  At least in desktop consumer CPUs they
compete well in the budget and low-end-multicore segments but
then only because they make way less margin than Intel.  That is
why there are so few AMD CPUs