Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

[rupert]

pete and chipguy: You are starting to make me feel guilty about SONY! Perhaps it is too sprawling a subject. When I made my initial remarks about how a Sony-AMD product might enhance the AMD brand and how a SONY-AMD thin-and-light might increase AMD's market share, I had in mind:

1. the several TV's and video players I and my family and friends have bought over the years. At the time of purchase they were leading-edge and they were trouble free and lasted a long time:

2. the leading-edge TV's and video and DVD players now being displayed in leading stores:

3. the early Walkman's:

4. the VIAO and the PC's (Intel inside) which dominate the shelf space along with HP here in Mexico:

5. the Sony radios in various nice cars I have had over the years.

But actually I was pointing to the very obvious fact that Sony is a leading world-wide brand. Even you knowledgable people have being repeatedly buying Sony, it seems.

* WRT mmoys debating point about the demise of Beta. I think Beta was the better system. The fact that America industry imposed it's preferred standard does not alter that.

It's a little like the TV standards issue. The UK, France and Russia have developed three different systems for colour TV and they have been in operation for generations. Each one is superior to the American system (partly because America went to mass colour TV before Europe). Yet Americans tried to enforce their standard worldwide. Thankfully the emergence of the EU has put a stop to that although the European countries now have to work out compatability issues between themselves within the EU.