


Union may represent effort to hold off surging AMD









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By biohazard420420 on 12/3/2010 1:28:13 AM , Rating: 1
Intel is evil in the same way Pizza Hut has the "best" rated pizza's. Did Intel do some shady things sure but what it boils down to is not all of us reading this article its your father or your grandma or uncle. Let me clear that up a bit, the vast majority of people who buy pc/notebooks know next to nothing at all about computers I think we can all agree on that. Sure there are a lot of people who know how to build and/or fix their computers, but for everyone of us there are 10 stupid people.

Intel had a lock on OEM contract mainly because even stupid people more often than not have heard of Intel or Pentium weather or not they know what they are or do. Sure AMD had better or efficient or cost effective processors, but your average joe knows the name Intel, just like your average joe knows Pizza Hut. The bottom line is this people will buy what they know, they know Intel they know Pizza Hut they don't care if a mile down the road you can get the best pizza ever or that an AMD chip will out perform and intel chip. They know and are comfortable with Intel.

People go with what they know even if its wrong. Sure Intel did some bad things but the fact is even if they had been totally above board they still would have won maybe AMD would have a bit better market share but Intel would still be on top.

