Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

[imho]

Keith,

Athlon64 launch partners - expectations

I must have read some 50+ articles on the subject by now, and the only names I´ve seen mentioned were Alienware, Northgate (sold @ Costco) and Hp (with some sort of availability later in the year) to sell Athlon64. Other small players are expected to be on board too, but the press and analysts are apparently not aware of any other names. Quite a few analysts expect no tier one support at all. It will be interesting to see if these expectations will turn out to be correct :)

From the tone of the above post, I thought you knew something we did'nt. Where are IBM, Sun, Sony, Toshiba, Dell, Gateway, or even Apple? Sure Dell and even Gateway and Apple were a stretch, but all have been rumored as possible partners by diehard AMDers and even The InQ. At least one of these OEM's would have been great. Rather disappointing don't you think?

IMHO