Is AMD64 an untouchable @ DELL ?

[codefixer]

Hi,

I don't understand why DELL is unwilling to sell AMD64 products. Steve
Felice, VP @ DELl says their is no customers demand for AMD64. Suck to
be Steve. From various Linux flavors to BSD, the OS rocks on AMD64
macs. I have seen conformance test suite benhcmarks which are better on
AMD64 than on f**ing Itanium.

I feel this is a ridiculous policy @ DELL not to sell AMD products.
Anyone in FTC listening ?

Sorry but I am frustrated by this attitude of DELL and will post this
message on multiple newsgroups.

Thanks.

 

[DHOLLINGSWORTH2]

Hi,

I don't understand why DELL is unwilling to sell AMD64 products. Steve
Felice, VP @ DELl says their is no customers demand for AMD64. Suck to
be Steve. From various Linux flavors to BSD, the OS rocks on AMD64
macs. I have seen conformance test suite benhcmarks which are better on
AMD64 than on f**ing Itanium.

I feel this is a ridiculous policy @ DELL not to sell AMD products.
Anyone in FTC listening ?

Sorry but I am frustrated by this attitude of DELL and will post this
message on multiple newsgroups.

Thanks.

Maybe you should let Dell know. I for one have no authority over them.

 

[Ivan Vecerina]

I don't understand why DELL is unwilling to sell AMD64 products. Steve
Felice, VP @ DELl says their is no customers demand for AMD64. Suck to
be Steve. From various Linux flavors to BSD, the OS rocks on AMD64
macs. I have seen conformance test suite benhcmarks which are better on
AMD64 than on f**ing Itanium.

Business reasons: they obviously get better pricing etc from intel
by exclusively selling their processors.

I feel this is a ridiculous policy @ DELL not to sell AMD products.
Anyone in FTC listening ?

FTC? Since Dell isn't in a monopolistic position, there is nothing
wrong with the way it chooses its suppliers.

Sorry but I am frustrated by this attitude of DELL and will post this
message on multiple newsgroups.

This is much more reprehensible that what Dell does.
Buy your PCs from another vendor.
If you buy Dell, maybe you are benefiting from the discounted
price it gets on Intel processors. But for sure you aren't
giving it an incentive to change its policy.

 

[Rolf Magnus]

Hi,

I don't understand why DELL is unwilling to sell AMD64 products. Steve
Felice, VP @ DELl says their is no customers demand for AMD64. Suck to
be Steve. From various Linux flavors to BSD, the OS rocks on AMD64
macs. I have seen conformance test suite benhcmarks which are better on
AMD64 than on f**ing Itanium.

I fail to see the connection to C++ here.

I feel this is a ridiculous policy @ DELL not to sell AMD products.
Anyone in FTC listening ?

Sorry but I am frustrated by this attitude of DELL and will post this
message on multiple newsgroups.

So you're not only post off-topic messages, but also do multi-posting (which
is even worse than cross-posting).

 

[Allan Bruce]

Hi,

I don't understand why DELL is unwilling to sell AMD64 products. Steve
Felice, VP @ DELl says their is no customers demand for AMD64. Suck to
be Steve. From various Linux flavors to BSD, the OS rocks on AMD64
macs. I have seen conformance test suite benhcmarks which are better on
AMD64 than on f**ing Itanium.

I feel this is a ridiculous policy @ DELL not to sell AMD products.
Anyone in FTC listening ?

Sorry but I am frustrated by this attitude of DELL and will post this
message on multiple newsgroups.

Thanks.

It will be because there is no 64-bit operating system from MS yet.
Besides, this aint got anything to do with C++...

 

[Ioannis Vranos]

It will be because there is no 64-bit operating system from MS yet.
Besides, this aint got anything to do with C++...

Facts so far:

Two days ago, Intel released its Pentium 4 x64 processors. You may check
shop web sites to see prices (here in Greece Intel's are ~220€).

Until the end of 2005 both companies will provide dual core mainstream
x64 processors (Athlon x64 and Pentium 4 x64), while AMD will provide
high-end dual core x64 processors since summer 2005 (Opteron x64).


MS is releasing Windows XP Professional x64 along with Windows 2003 x64
Server at the end of March. RC2 was released few days ago:

http://www.winsupersite.com/reviews/windowsxp_x64_preview2.asp


Windows x64 for these x64 enabled processors can run both 32-bit and
64-bit applications (except of the low level 32-bit ones) while require
64-bit drivers, but not 16-bit applications any more.

 

[Victor Bazarov]

It will be because there is no 64-bit operating system from MS yet.

Really? I didn't know they are so full of hot air...
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/64bit/default.mspx
And what is "It" in your statement? Never mind, it's all off-topic.

Besides, this aint got anything to do with C++...

It ain't. They guy is just a f****ng troll. And you're feeding him.

V