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Stop using Microsoft and Intel as crutches

1233 points posted to Dell by ronsemail 02/17/07

Try innovating without Microsoft or Intel as your R&D lab. Go hire and staff a kick butt set of designers and engineers and pay them the better than anyone else. In fact pay all of your staff better than anyone else, in 3 years you will be the best brand in the business. Try spending some of your customers money on product development instead of putting it your bank account.

bobetsue
02/17/07		 I have so many problems with Intel Pentium 4 with Hyperthreading that I hope to never buy another laptop with Intel anything! The chip runs hot, the fans [plural] run all the time and are noisy, and WordPerfect 9, 10, 11, & 12 are not fully compatible with hyperthreading! Please offer AMD based computers.
mcavity
02/18/07		 Dell does offer AMD systems now.
groffliers
02/21/07		 ok
kholz
04/16/07		 The new Core 2 Duo CPU are great and they also have 64-bit extensions like the AMD-64. I'm using it in a MacBook and it runs better than any computer I have ever owned (of course it's faster), and own a few PPC, x86 boxes and one SPARC64 box all running Linux except the MacBook.
I have always found windows to be sluggish even a fresh install (Windows 2000 Server) on a P4 with RAMBUS RAM
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