Posted 11/12/2008 at 05:48:39pm

Wow. I haven't seen this many pissed off AMD fanboi's posting a bunch of bitchy, whiny crap since C2D came out. But I guess Intel copied that off of the so hugely successful AMD right?

ROFLMAO!

Posted 10/26/2008 at 10:45:27am

Unless SecuRom has changed since Bioshock, it installs without your consent or knoweledge unless you actually read the box or know about it before hand. You cannot uninstall SecuRom. Even if you uninstall the game, SecuRom is still on your computer.

I'm not opposed to a working, unintrusive DRM scheme. But SecuRom simply isn't it. I will back up my complaints with my wallet. I will not buy a game with this crapware included in it.

If I get to wanting to play it too badly, I may buy the game and then download a crack for it. I won't outright steal the game, but I don't want SecuRom on my friggin computer.

When you have folks like me considering cracks or using a totally seperate HDD to install the game to protect your personal info on your main drive from potentially damaging crapware, you've scored an ultimate fail.

Posted 04/20/2007 at 08:11:04am

I've been an AMD fanboi, Oh look! another boy with an "i" in it!, since pre-Thunderbird. AMD has always been a CPU manufacturer that appealed to the "underdog" favorer in me. However, my main rig runs a C2D chip for good reason. Intel is brining more to the performance table than AMD is. With Intel's eyes now seemingly glued open to the ways of the underdog, they could very well squash AMD back into 15th place if AMD doesn't get off their ass and start pumping out an architecture worth buying. Will Barcelona be the Holy Grail for AMD? Maybe. But if AMD thinks for one second that a single Quad-Core CPU is going to pull their silicon out of the fire before it melts, they've got some hard truths ahead of them. Intel's financial and researching capabilities have been levered against AMD. And this time, it's a lever being effectively applied. Great write up Paul. Very thought provoking and timely.