"TravelinMan" <Nowhere@spamfree.com> wrote in message news:Nowhere-1FA56D.16275709062005@news1.west.earthlink.net... > Dell steadfastly refuses to consider AMD. If Intel weren't competitive, > don't you think Dell (who does a better job than anyone of reducing > component costs) would look at them?
Dell gets significant incentives from Intel to not use AMD chips. Even so, they have periodic bouts of schizophrenia where AMD systems are available for a few days before some exec finds out and shuts things down.
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