Posted 11/04/2009 at 07:25:07pm

I can't tell you how many times i have been talking about and hoping for 3 platforms.

Intel

AMD/ATI

Nvidia

None of those companies are going away anytime soon. and more competition is just going to be better for the consumer.

 interesting how AMD had mentioned "platforms" a couple years back. I think it is starting to mean something now.

Posted 11/03/2009 at 05:39:47pm

our country doesn't have the infrastructure to handle everybody's needs.

Posted 09/23/2009 at 05:38:08pm

if there was ever a time AMD were to do the same thing, then they would get the same response as now with intel.

the point is that they haven't done it, if/until they do we don't have a problem with them right now. Right now it is intel who is doing bad business practice.

Posted 09/23/2009 at 05:38:05pm

if there was ever a time AMD were to do the same thing, then they would get the same response as now with intel.

the point is that they haven't done it, if/until they do we don't have a problem with them right now. Right now it is intel who is doing bad business practice.

Posted 09/22/2009 at 02:17:18pm

http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/windows_7_gets_optimized_intel_chips

they seem to have money to throw around. It makes $1 billion seem like a drop in the bucket

http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/intel_throw_884_million_wind_river_systems_acquistion

http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/intel_invests_43_million_japanese_wimax_company

and intel sells alot

http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/intel_over_1_billion_compatible_motherboards_sold

plus they are like 80% of market share?

they would not want anyone invading their turf. I think if given the choice they would rather be a monopoly

http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/nvidia_chimes_intel_antitrust_fine

http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/intel_pricing_policy_penalizes_ion_platform

http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/escalation_nvidia_files_counterlawsuit_against_intel

http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/angry_intel_threatens_pull_crosslicensing_patent_agreement_amd

They don't want AMD to recover, they dont want Nvidia making chipsets or processors (using VIA) and they probably want to kick them out of graphics.

again, i would love to see 3 platforms

intel, AMD, nvidia with a lot of mixmatching of vidcards, chipsets, and processors

Posted 09/17/2009 at 09:04:10pm

maybe so, but im almost willing to bet ur not gaming with onboard graphics

Posted 09/17/2009 at 09:03:20pm

kinda sad because i already joined prior to this event

Posted 08/23/2009 at 03:06:17pm

heh heh microsoft is on the alliance, pointing fingers at google for being a monopoly.

"aint that the pot who called the kettle black"

Posted 07/17/2009 at 06:09:12pm

sega had some interesting ideas, but they were terrible with business (and still are maybe).

sega genesis had a 56k modem hook up for online play (never took off)

they released the dreamcast a little after playstation was introduced (as the sega saturn failed against it) but the sega saturn first used cds for games (i believe)

memory cards for dreamcast would allow you to do mini games

and so on and so forth

Posted 07/15/2009 at 06:53:12pm

thats the beauty of firefox extensions

 https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/722