Replies to post #67539 on Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

[I_banker]

Smooth, is this another display of your outstanding intellect?

It was wireless that was ready to take off and did. Low power was icing on the cake.

Centrino was 802.11b, which as we all know was cutting edge at the time right. No 802.11b or g PCMCIA cards were available and of course no one made 802.11g chips that outperformed Intel's 802.11b chip and that were capable of being integrated with Intel's centrino product -- not.

Yes, that's it. It was wireless, yeah definitely the wireless.

[Ixse]

Smooth, look at it this way: Centrino offered something AMD couldn't, i.e. low power. Wireless was getting all too standard and the vast majority of AMD notebooks were at the time that Centrino got introduced nicely outfitted with the standard (.11b/g) as well so it was not nearly as relevant a differentiator as low power (.11b/g either as build in or optional). Also .11b/g PCMCIA cards were aplenty as well. Either way it was available en masse. The reason I know is because I bought a notebook back then and I checked virtually all brands that carried AMD DTRs. Low power good performing T&L notebooks, a space ONLY adressed by Centrino. For years, up till Turion.

Now Viiv offers ABOLUTELY NOTHING that AMD can't match, and X2 well outperforms DC P4 (and at lower power). See the difference?

Regards,

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