Replies to post #58486 on Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

[mmoy]

I need to buy a second cooler for my P4M notebook. I'm using the
old Dell to drive the big monitor as I want to keep the r3000z
available to run Windows 64 and Windows 64 doesn't support our
VPN yet. At least I don't think that it does. I'd have to call
our tech guys to be sure but they don't have VPN working for
Tiger yet and there are more people with Tiger than with Windows 64.

In the meantime, I'm looking for a really quiet fan that's USB powered that can it on top of the keyboard to provide more cooling. I already have one cooler underneath the notebook. The notebook fan comes on at about 15 to 20% CPU utilization.

Fortunately most of my work is VNCing into bigger machines.

A really cheap and quiet Athlon 64 machine may do the trick to replace the notebook. It would just have to have a pretty good video card.

[j3pflynn]

bobs10 - I think it's a pretty tough case to make that Intel is behind AMD in manufacturing processes. Their paths have bifurcated in many ways, so a comparison is somewhat difficult. I'm sure that they're ahead in many respects, and AMD is ahead in some. But if they're behind in technologies that they haven't chosen to use, and have no plans to use, that's somewhat irrelevant if they get the job done in other ways.

I'm finding it sounds like people are discounting Intel's capability to compete technologically, just because they're struggling with their product line to some extent right now.

It's very foolhardy to assume this will continue. Fortunately, I have confidence that Hector, Dirk and crew make no such assumptions, but are innovating continually.

Paul

[smooth2o]

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