Frobes.com: AMD shipping CPU's to Dell within weeks

http://www.forbes.com/markets/comm [...] ets08.html

Yet another article stating Dell will be selling AMD very soon. According to the article Dell will be shipping AMD based laptops first and then Opterons/Athlon64's later.

-mpjesse

I dont think Dell will have AMD Systems.

Idk though because think of how many thousands maybe millions of people have been turned away from Dell because they dont offer AMD products. Offering them would give them more of an edge on the Market. This seems like an excellent marketing tool and a smart move on Dells part.

Yeah, but it wouldn't surprise me if Dell intentionally paired the AMD CPUs with really faulty hardware, put it all at very low prices so that plenty of people would buy, and then happily collected up the customer complaints to use as an excuse to never work with AMD again.

Maybe I'm just a cynic though.

8O What, a AMD that can't be overclocked!

Definetly you're outdated, AMD rigth now is the best processor available, DESKTOP, PROFESIONAL AND EVEN SERVER. Rigth now other companys like HP, SUN MICROSYSTEM, GATEWAYS are gaining space on the market just by using amd64 cpu. I think is a big move from dell to use amd64 technology. even futher with the upcoming socket am2 with ddr2 memory controller and 0.65 manufacturing process.


by real, be smart! use AMD64

ya know, Dell adopting AMD is really sad.
AMD had the crown for nearly two years now.
Dell has been leaking this for over a year.
Their corporate red tape drag a$$edness will mean that maybe by the end of the year Dell would implement just as Intel is once again takin the lead making it seem AMD was a bad choice after all....

You know I think Omid was right when he posted that editiorial years ago about AMD fan boys crippling AMD's succes.

The best thing AMD ever did was get rid of Jerry Sanders (he claims he retired). He was a fan boy of his own creation to a fault.

Ever since Hector Ruiz took over they've been turning a profit. That was something AMD could never do with Sanders at the helm. At the end of the day, that's what AMD is all about- making money. And making money they are.

I hate to break it to you, but Hector Ruiz doesn't give a shite about us AMD fan boys. Nor should he.

-mpjesse

I doubt it... like you said they'll probably initally reserve AMD systems for extremely low margin budget PC's. Certainly Dell isn't going to go out of their way to advertise they're "now selling AMD" 'cause like you said, they're not being reimbursed for it. So high end gaming PC's with AMD CPU's probably won't be available for a while.

I do however expect to see Opteron based servers fairly soon after their intial "AMD" launch. Opteron is now highly respected in the enterprise market and IT professionals are screaming for them. As you may or may not know I work at LANL (Los Alamos National Labs) and we've got more than a few Opteron superclusters here. The geeks love 'em and are looking forward to getting some new Opteron Dual Core based clusters. The only solution Intel is offering is 2, 4, 8 etc way processor hot Xeon systems. Intel is making a huge mistake by not "dual coring" Xeons. Once again they're betting too much on Itantic and not enough on Xeon.

EDIT: just emailed a buddy of mine in IT, he says we now have 14 Opteron based superclusters and they plan on replacing a bunch of Xeon clusters w/ Opteron clusters this year.

-mpjesse