Posted 01/09/2009 at 06:13:25am

I have been a AMD user for years. Out of all the workstations and servers I have, only 1 is intel. But, they have really been pushing me away. First with the falling behind in performance, then with buying ATI, as I use all nvidia products. Then with a good chunk of their stocks being bought by middle eastern interests. Now, with their pushing their own 3 way brand, and not letting computer builders, like me, chose what is best for MY needs or my customers needs.

For the first time, I am thinking about intel. AMD has been good in the past but they are making to many dicissions FOR people when it should be 100% the customers choice. And me being told that one day I might have to buy intel just to get the support of the video cards I need because AMD has its own brand is not right.

Posted 01/09/2009 at 05:38:37am

ISPs charging an arm and a leg or shutting you off after you
download a few movies? Sorry but anyone that thinks blu-ray is dead
just because you can pay almost as much and not get a physcial product
is nuts, oh, and then have a HDD fail and have to buy it again unless
you backed it up or burn it to a disc, by then with the cost of the
burner and burning media, you have paid just as much if not more and
you have a cheap burned copy of a blu-ray disc.
Come on people.
Downloads are easy, fast and simple for demos, chatting, updates and
some other content, but full mainstream products?
Maybe years down the road when granny computers have 20 exabytes of storage
and 50TB wireless, capless internet people will start to move towards
downloads as a FULL replacement to physical media, but even then,
people will still favor getting something in hand for their hard earned
money. I know I do as well as the people I know.
Renting movies is a bit better but your spending money on something you can't keep.
 
Josh DeHaan
3D Artwork, Inc.
http://www.3dartwork.net/