[ubuntu-uk] Intel evil or not? WAS: Quad core CPU for Ubuntu, is it worth it?

[James Grabham]

I go for AMDs because they're a lot cheaper.

On Dec 17, 2007 3:05 PM, Kirrus <kirrus at kirrus.co.uk> wrote:

>
> > > Not sure you can say Intel is evil. They are an awful lot better
> > (with
> > > respect to open sourcing code/drivers) than a number of other
> > vendors such
> > > as NVidia and ATI.
> > >
> > > Of the Intel machines I have, two have NVidia GPUs and five have
> > Intel GPUs.
> > > None have ATI.
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Al.
> >
> >
> > I agree, calling Intel evil is a little harsh. Personally I always
> > try
> > to go with Intel, if possible, as they are so well supported. I have
> > a
> > couple of Intel only machines, CPU, chipset, GPU, wireless chips etc,
> > and in my experience they have been the easiest machines to get Linux
> > up and running on. Support for their wireless cards is probably the
> > best I have come across. Support for their graphics chips is not too
> > shabby either, Compiz, not that I use it, works out of the box.
> >
>
> I take it you've not heard of the term `wintel` then?
>
> Intel is a massive company, which had a monopoly the same sort of size of
> Microsoft's desktop share. AMD came in, and started forcing Intel to shake
> things up, but till AMD came along, Intel were more bothered with the size
> of their profits than innovation and their customers.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wintel
>
> In this monopoly battle, AMD is still very much the underdog to intel's
> behemoth. Does any of this sound familiar? :)
>
> In terms of battle, I think AMD are more like Firefox & IE than Windows &
> Linux, but still you get the idea.
>
> Intel might be trying now to get into the graphics scene, and making sure
> that their drivers are open, but AMD has historically been kinder to the
> Open Source community, as shown by them buying and then starting to open
> ATI.
>
> For some stats and more detailed information:
> http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/102607-arguments-intel-amd.html?nwwpkg=50arguments(no second page, whatever it says...)
>
> Kind Regards,
>
> Kirrus
>
>
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