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[Andy787]

http://digitimes.com/mobos/a20051014PR202.html

Wow.

 

[Crow]

awesome...hope they dont get cocky tho.

 

[MrPing1000]

It has just occured to me that I have no idea what AMD stood for until now

 

[typhonsentra]

It has just occured to me that I have no idea what AMD stood for until now

Same. I wouldn't of even checked if you didn't mention the article says what it stands for.

 

[teh_pwn]

Doesn't include prebuilt machines.

It can't. There's no way that the # of AMD machines could be > than what Dell makes.

 

[Wendo]

In September, Media Center PCs accounted for 46% of all US retail desktop sales

Whhhhaa?

 

[DonasaurusRex]

from AMDZone.com, quite an old article

Spurred by Back-to-School Sales, AMD Surpasses Intel in U.S. Retail Desktop Sales in September

SAN DIEGO, Calif. – October 13, 2005 – After facing what seemed an insurmountable decline in desktop sales during the first six months of 2005, processor underdog AMD captured 52% of U.S. retail desktop sales in the month of September. AMD’s performance during the all-important back-to-school shopping season topped chip giant Intel’s 46% share by six points. Despite its past successes in surpassing Intel desktop sales in select retail sales weeks, September 2005 marked the first time AMD was able to outperform Intel for an entire month.*

Directly contributing to AMD’s success was the rise in popularity of Media Center PCs. In September, Media Center PCs accounted for 46% of all U.S. retail desktop sales. Of those sales, 55% included an AMD-based processor.

The star system of the Media Center movement and AMD’s success was the HP Pavilion a1130n. Running Microsoft’s Media Center OS and offering a 64-bit AMD Athlon 64 processor and 1 Gigabyte of RAM for a post-rebate price of $679; the a1130n has become the best selling Media Center PC in retail to date.

Seems like AMD won the back to school market battle and HP cashed in, suck it down dell.

 

[Panic_Attack]

Awesome

 

[Raistlin]

A good number of PCs available at places like BB, CC, CompUSA have AMD chips.

Compaq, HP, Cisnet, eMachines, etc. all offer AMD models.

 

[Timbuktu]

A good number of PCs available at places like BB, CC, CompUSA have AMD chips.

Compaq, HP, Cisnet, eMachines, etc. all offer AMD models.

Will Apple?

 

[Diablos]

Awesome!

 

[gigapower]

Will Apple?

We can only hope someday.

 

[Phoenix]

Will Apple?

Depends entirely on Intel's monetary arrangement and AMDs ability to lower the power consumption of their smaller parts so they can fit in portables.

 

[DonasaurusRex]

so are the new apples going to use pentium M or something? The A64's i thought had better power consumption than the current P4's

 

[Animal]

Amd's philosophy is much closer to apple's philosophy than intel is. They like to do big fat chips that do alot more at a slower speed. Go AMD.

 

[Timbuktu]

Depends entirely on Intel's monetary arrangement and AMDs ability to lower the power consumption of their smaller parts so they can fit in portables.

But there is nothing, technologically speaking, that prevents Apple to switch from Intel to AMD, or to use both after their switch to Intel, am I right?

 

[Phoenix]

so are the new apples going to use pentium M or something? The A64's i thought had better power consumption than the current P4's

The expectation is that the consumer parts will use Pentium M (indeed the dev machine use them) and that the pro-line will be using dual core Yonah chips as they become available.

 

[Phoenix]

But there is nothing, technologically speaking, that prevents Apple to switch from Intel to AMD, or to use both after their switch to Intel, am I right?

Not that I'm aware of. There are more issues migrating OpenGL and Velocity Engine code than there moving from an Intel chip to an AMD one.

 

[Hitokage]

Not that I'm aware of. There are more issues migrating OpenGL and Velocity Engine code than there moving from an Intel chip to an AMD one.

Why would OGL be an issue? Or is that just a generic example.

 

[Phoenix]

Why would OGL be an issue? Or is that just a generic example.

Byte ordering issues particularly. Unfortunately you're close enough to the hardware that you actually care

 

[DonasaurusRex]

Pentium M going in the apple huh, i wonder how it will perform with apples media apps, thats one thing the P4 was actually excelling at and alot of apps were optimized for that net burst architecture.

 

[Phoenix]

geezus in heaven joey harrington is being fed to the lions 6 sacks on em.

So is that a vote for Intel or AMD?

 

[DonasaurusRex]

So is that a vote for Intel or AMD?

haha wrong post my bad.