I go for AMDs because they're a lot cheaper. <div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 17, 2007 3:05 PM, Kirrus <<a href="mailto:kirrus@kirrus.co.uk">kirrus@kirrus.co.uk</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> > > 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. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wintel" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wintel</a> 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: <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/102607-arguments-intel-amd.html?nwwpkg=50arguments" target="_blank">http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/102607-arguments-intel-amd.html?nwwpkg=50arguments </a> (no second page, whatever it says...) Kind Regards, Kirrus -- Blog: <a href="http://www.kirrus.co.uk" target="_blank">http://www.kirrus.co.uk</a> UK Plone Hosting: <a href="http://www.plone-hosting.co.uk" target="_blank"> http://www.plone-hosting.co.uk</a> RPGs: Captain Senaris Vlenn, CO, USS Sarek Lt Aieron Peters, XO DS5 -- <a href="mailto:ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com </a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk</a> <a href="https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/" target="_blank">https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/ </a> </blockquote></div>