🚀 go-pugleaf

"Folk" <Folk@folk.com> wrote in message 
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> On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 13:01:37 -0700, "goPostal"
> <agutgopostal@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>>> I would think long and hard about going with an AMD based system,
>>> given the current dominance of the Intel's Core 2 Duo.
>>
>>Not to mention I just read yesterday that AMD is really tightening their
>>belt company-wide because they are getting killed by Intel.
>
> Heh.  They have a long history of getting killed by Intel and a
> relatively short period of superiority.
>
> My last 4 boxes have been Intel, AMD, Intel, AMD.  That was P2, K2, P4
> and now AMD64 (3500+).  I plan to replace my current system this Fall
> (or whenever the UT3 demo hits) and unless AMD pulls a rabbit out of
> their hat I'm going to go Intel this time.  I'm certainly not a
> fanboy... I'll use whatever is king at the time I'm building, but TBH
> I'm glad it's going to be Intel this time around.  Although my current
> Nforce 3 based system is the most stable I've ever owned (built two
> years ago and nary a problem) it's still true that the industry
> designs toward Intel based platforms.

I'm curous about how you feel on Vista. I'm dual booting but it seems I 
hardly use Vista at all. It never seems to take long before I run into some 
problem or another that I just don't have in XP. Pretty layout but they 
could have used another year of beta testing.