[TriLUG] AMD vs. Intel

Cristobal Palmer cristobalpalmer at gmail.com
Fri Jul 28 17:56:40 EDT 2006


On 7/28/06, David McDowell <turnpike420 at gmail.com> wrote:
> save one... my very first PC bought in 1997 is an AMD 166 still
> running my firewall today.

What? That track record wasn't good enough for you to try even one more time?

-CMP

>
> On 7/28/06, Greg Brown <gwbrown1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > It was not long ago at all, just last year, that the prevailing opinion of
> > those on Trilug seemed to be that AMD was leading the way for chip design
> > for the foreseeable future.  With Intel's latest announcements, along with
> > the Core Duo, I was wondering what the consensus opinion was these days.
> >
> > If you were going to build a linux desktop or laptop what processor would
> > you pick?  Intel, AMD, or something else?
> >
> > 3.... 2..... 1..... FIGHT!!
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