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Old May 14, 2009, 09:29 PM   #30
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Originally Posted by cdawall View Post
so i work at bestbuy and if you look at machines that come into GS to be fixed (poor people) intel to amd is 10:1 there are so many P4 530 and P4 640 etc that come in an a64 is rare so rare in an OEM PC
2 reasons:
1. may be a64 based pcs never got sold so they didn't come in for repairs
2. Intel inside Idiots outside rule (AMD inside smarties outside so they fix it by themselves).

Hope this ruling gives some fresh breath into AMD and they can crawl back up.
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