Re: Apple and the Holy War

[supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer)]

Phoenyx <quazar@dcnet2000.com> wrote:

>Supertimer wrote:
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>> The business markets are always into the big name stuff.
>> You will almost never see an AMD based PC in a big
>> company but AMD has in fact produced a superior CPU
>> in the 1Ghz Athlon and AMD is winning the home market
>> slowly but surely.  And this, in turn, has resulted in the
>> entry of a lot of AMD units into businesses and schools.
>
>I have to disagree here. As a tech I have installed many AMD
>systems for various businesses. After a demo of comparable
>systems most businesses will the best priced system with
>the best support and then worry about cpu.

You are right, after they see the product perform, they
might change their minds.  Unfortunately, the people
in charge in some companies won't even go that far.

In my company, the people in charge would rather have
75Mhz Intel powered computers than non-Intel ones.
I've looked at many of our computers and they do
support the voltage requirements of a K6-2.  So for $50
per computer, they could have each unit running at
400Mhz (and our computers need it as they are SLOW).
But the people in charge only know Intel.

This is a changing, though, as AMD gets more popular
thanks to proven successes.