Intel have been resting on their own merrits alot, and as a result have produced much inferior chips to AMD.
I have heard rumors that Dell will not take the risk to move to AMD, because Intel will refuse to supply to Dell, even if using AMD chips is only an option. Talk about unfair trade practices....
Will Intel and Apple, again Intel are trying to keep their strangehold on the market and have offered a good deal to Apple to do so.
Anyway, I agree that Tom, Molly and Veronica should talk about it.
(I don't like using MTV as an abbreviation for Tom, Molly and Veronica, people might get an exellent podcast confused with a crappy music network)
comparison on Cnet. (I got locked out of the title, need longer titles).
It seems like AMD has been moving ahead of Intel for a while, but still seem to be the ugly step child. Dell (my prefered computer company) doesn't sell AMD and Apple has announced a deal with Intel, not AMD. Why not? Why aren't there more options?

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