Dude, Where's My AMD?
Word has reached us that Dell is cutting back some of their AMD-powered offerings, at least on their web site:
“The big computer company said it still plans to keep selling the AMD-based machines in retail stores and over the phone and is still using its Web site to sell AMD-powered machines for business users. But Dell's shift is nevertheless seen as negative for AMD, which took years to convince Dell to modify its longtime strategy of using ...”
It took Dell a very long time to agree to sell AMD machines, and sadly by the time they finally agreed to do so Intel was readying the Core CPUs. Considering that the performance (and demand amongst some high-end crowds) change every few CPU generations, we can't help but wondering if AMD will be back on Dell's consumer web site.
“The big computer company said it still plans to keep selling the AMD-based machines in retail stores and over the phone and is still using its Web site to sell AMD-powered machines for business users. But Dell's shift is nevertheless seen as negative for AMD, which took years to convince Dell to modify its longtime strategy of using ...”
It took Dell a very long time to agree to sell AMD machines, and sadly by the time they finally agreed to do so Intel was readying the Core CPUs. Considering that the performance (and demand amongst some high-end crowds) change every few CPU generations, we can't help but wondering if AMD will be back on Dell's consumer web site.
