On 10/29/2012 02:15 PM, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > Am Sonntag, 28. Oktober 2012 schrieb Stan Hoeppner: >> On 10/28/2012 4:38 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: >>> On Sb, 27 oct 12, 22:27:30, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >>>> Coming from a 2800+ which is a ~60 watt CPU, and given the fact >>>> you'll never make use of more than 2 of those 8 cores, I recommend >>>> a dual core AthlonII X2 @ 3.4GHz. I have the 3GHz model and the >>>> 2nd core is pretty much always idle, with primary core being idle >>>> most of the time as well, as is everyone's. >>>> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103953 >>> >>> Any opinion on a Core i3 (Ivy Bridge)? >> >> I use and promote AMD exclusively. If everyone buys Intel then AMD >> exits the x86 processor business. If/when that happens, Intel has no >> competition and can and will do two detrimental things to the market: >> >> 1. Raise prices with impunity >> 2. Innovate at a lower pace, or stop innovating altogether >> >> If enough people buy AMD then Intel has a strong competitor. This >> keeps the marketplace healthy and keeps Chipzilla from becoming a >> total monopoly WRT x86. > > Granted. Thats the political reason. > > Still I see nothing in AMD space that can compete with recent Sandybridge > / Ivybridge processors in terms of computing power versus power > consumption ratio. > > But I am happy to learn more. > > I think that ARM will become interesting enough to have some competition > going on. > > And I think AMD might have something nice to offer as competition to Intel > Atom CPUs. > > For powerful laptops and power saving desktops I think Intel > Sandybridge/Ivybridge is best bet currently - except for the political > dimension. >
At the same time, I have reservations about supporting AMD -- or more to the point their subsidiary, NVidia -- when purchasing hardware. It seems to me that Intel has been a better friend to FOSS than its competition. I run my systems without proprietary software or firmware. Intel has made that a lot easier for me. I like to reward them for that -- not that any of those companies would ever notice whether or not I was a customer. NVidia certainly didn't give a d*** about me when I was trying to get support for three workstations running their most expensive pro-sumer graphics cards. (And that was on Windows, as well as on GNU/Linux.) ;-) the worrier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/508ece6a.2020...@comcast.net
