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Subject: AMD
There might have been a day when changing from one company to another to obtain the fastest processor made sense. Except for the most demanding of users, that is no longer the case. While it may be true that Intel processors are currently faster than AMD, there is no compelling reason to throw your AMD based system out in the yard and go running to your local computer store, with huge wads of cash in hand, to hungrily purchase this new and wonderful processor from Intel.
It is true that that AMD may fail but that will be primarily because of a lack of brand loyalty throughout the industry. Rather than rushing out to buy an Intel processor, unless there is a truly compelling need, we should rush out and buy a new and faster AMD processor. The funds, so spent, will enable AMD to continue to flourish. It is absolutely fundamental that AMD not fail. Do you think for a moment that we would have our current superfast processors, that can be purchased for reasonable prices, without the competition that AMD provides. It is very likely that the price of processors would be much higher and the speed of such processors would be much slower. Without the intense competition within the processor market place there would be little incentive for Intel to provide faster processors.
The dollars would have gone and will certainly go in the future, to the stockholders instead of into research. One only has to look in the direction of Microsoft to see what happens when there is a lack of competition. We receive useless programs like Vista, and if we want something better where do we turn? Much of this process of rushing out to buy the new Intel offerings is about peer pressure.
Trade your AMD based systems in for an Intel-based system at your peril. Amen
L Babcock
