Re: Apple Computer sides with Satan



On Sat, 04 Jun 2005 07:34:55 -0400, John Steinberg
<seesig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
>> They should have gone with AMD.
>
>Why? And how is Intel Satan?
>
>I guess some yutz at CNET heard "dual-core" and assumed it was Intel?
>

I've followed Intel's record of massive blunders and passing on costs
of that incompetence to consumers for years. AMD is like a group
of saints compared to Intel. The story? I don't know if it's true
or not, but I hate Intel enough to hope it isn't.
-Rich
>I love CNET, it's a true dot com success story, but their reporting on
>technology is often just plain silly. (Almost as silly as some of the
>upstream comments are in this thread.)
>
>A nickel for every time this rumor is floated and I'd have almost a
>dollar.
>
>Dual and single-core 970s from IBM is where Apple's going.
>
>x86? Puhlease! Wrong endian and slower performance. Itanium? It
>would turn the mini into the same material that comprises Rich's brain
>-- goo.

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