I have been AMD for at least 10 years as well and have no intention of switching now or in the future. The quad core I have had for over a year has given me plenty of power at a fraction of the cost.
IMO, It was Steve Job's sole decision to dump Motorola and it was a marketing ploy, pure & simple. Intel spent millions on it's own marketing strategy. It became necessary to have a computer with "Intel inside" for Joe Consumer. The company that brought you the Pentium, The Core 2 Duo, and other fancy marketing gimmicks. Motorola had the latest 68..something, something that went in a PowerMAC.
For Apple to align itself with that behemoth meant a solid boost to its short-term market share. Their short sightedness has pretty much cost them the desktop market (Rosetta comes to mind). Not that they care, mind you because that diversion bought them enough time to turn apple into THE gadget company. Apple Computer, Inc. becomes Apple, Inc. and their Desktop OS will eventually fade into oblivion. It's sad too, because I feel OS X is vastly superior in many ways. It has the stability & security Windows lacks and the cohesiveness & unified branding the *nix community lacks.
It seems as though Intel is hell bent on destroying the PC market as thoroughly as they did with MACs. Let them just try to pry my AMD PC from my cold dead fingers
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I have been AMD for at least 10 years as well and have no intention of switching now or in the future. The quad core I have had for over a year has given me plenty of power at a fraction of the cost.
IMO, It was Steve Job's sole decision to dump Motorola and it was a marketing ploy, pure & simple. Intel spent millions on it's own marketing strategy. It became necessary to have a computer with "Intel inside" for Joe Consumer. The company that brought you the Pentium, The Core 2 Duo, and other fancy marketing gimmicks. Motorola had the latest 68..something, something that went in a PowerMAC.
For Apple to align itself with that behemoth meant a solid boost to its short-term market share. Their short sightedness has pretty much cost them the desktop market (Rosetta comes to mind). Not that they care, mind you because that diversion bought them enough time to turn apple into THE gadget company. Apple Computer, Inc. becomes Apple, Inc. and their Desktop OS will eventually fade into oblivion. It's sad too, because I feel OS X is vastly superior in many ways. It has the stability & security Windows lacks and the cohesiveness & unified branding the *nix community lacks.
It seems as though Intel is hell bent on destroying the PC market as thoroughly as they did with MACs. Let them just try to pry my AMD PC from my cold dead fingers