It seems that lately all the amd fanboys have been on the defense. Their are alot of AMD fanboy sites that are scrambling to discredit conroe .i.e sharikou.blogspot.com, geek.com. Now I find it interesting that most of these guys take it so personal and go out of their way to defend a company like AMD....I mean it is almost down right fanatical. Now I'm not saying that intel doesn't have fanboys, cuz they do, but no where near the level of devotion and I'd take a bullet in the chest for AMD extreme. Is there a reason for this.......I just can't think of any other company that has this much of a loyal following.....yes even the apple geeks are not as loyal to their beloved apple. I hope the K8L works for AMD or we're going to start seeing amd fanboy sites saying that intel is the devil and they funded hitler during WWII........oh wait they probably already wrote that...........All hail AMD!!!!!!
You're right about fanaticism (although, if one cares to be honest with oneself, we're all a
bit...) and, about the pretense discredibility some people are trying to put on Intel's products. It's a very complex matter (fanaticism) and I shall resume it to its lightest form: preference.
Apple fans followed a brand, a design, a performant platform and a way of life, computing-wise; Intel fans typically followed power (in GHz and even now), and the actual undisputable, pervasive and allmighty computing giant's steps. AMD fans are in a class of their own: they mostly praise GHz-per-performance-per power (heat)-per-price; and, AMD gave them that, for the last half-decade.
Now, the landscape is changing; we're still IN the transition... it's tough to have to step down the podium, even if it's for the silver medal.
At the end, I still believe it's not a matter of who wins, but a matter of scale: The big one should win in their league and so should the small one. AMD had the chance (twice in a lifetime? Who knows...) of detroning the hardcore, for a while... and what a blow it was! A Hammer one!
But, Intel maintained its faithful crowd of fans with NetBurst, right?
I, for one, admire computing technology and the blurred meanders of chip design. I admire all that's been done in the past, I admire the K8, NetBurst (surprise?!), Core & whatever it is to come. I only hope it's
good & interesting.
Cheers!
I would argue that there seems to be a distinct difference between an AMD fanboy and an intel fanboy. It seems to me that most blog sites, forums, and for that matter tech sites are full of AMD (closet) fanboys that always seem to put a spin on news that quite frankly favors AMD. I would point out the recent news about AMD raising there product prices, well guess what that means........"AMD is raising prices because they can't keep up with demand." Now I'm not saying that AMD shouldn't raise prices....hell that's the american way, suppy and demand, but if intel was to raises prices then they are seen as a greedy company who want's to suck every last dime out of us.....oh and for that matter if they drop prices that is still seen as an evil scheme to lower poor little defenseless AMD's margins and take market share back....ahhhh how dare they do that. AMD on the other hand takes a 3 point share away from evil intel and everyone is happy.....Not to get off topic but this is kind of what like watching FOX news channel report the news......