AnandTech
AMD has been surging for the past year and a half or so and enthusiasts are pretty hyped about their x86-64 architecture. But the fact that enthusiasts (and some major manufacturers) are taking the Athlon 64/Athlon FX/Opteron plunge, Dell is still one of the more prominent holdouts:
Dell’s stance on this is that they don’t see a strong demand from their customers and thus won’t consider AMD based PCs just yet. Dell’s CEO, Kevin Rollins, makes it very clear that Dell won’t be offer AMD based PCs anytime soon, by stating ‘We’re the most successful PC company on the planet and we don’t have AMD’.
Pretty strong words there from Dell’s CEO. He is right and Dell’s sales have been up for the third quarter, but good times don’t always last and relationships can be broken…
The real reason is, of course that AMD can’t manufacture the chips in enough quantity for Dell, which is a shame, I’d love if Dell started selling alternates to intel boxes
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