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I don't know how you can root for Intel. Until AMD made it's comeback Intel charged premium prices for very low performance improvement generation after generat
by mhitza 4y ago
I don't know how you can root for Intel. Until AMD made it's comeback Intel charged premium prices for very low performance improvement generation after generation.
Intel is still the primary CPU on most laptops produced today; and only in the last 6-12 months I've started seeing some options to buy AMD powered laptops.
Even ignoring that Intel's vPRO/ME implementation is still scarier (potentially more invasive) than the somewhat equivalent AMD "feature".
- pengaru 4y ago> only in the last 6-12 months I've started seeing some options to buy AMD powered laptops The Lenovo X395 was released in 2019 w/2nd gen ryzen. Then their X13 in 2020 w/3rd gen ryzen, meaning you could have been using an 8-core X13 for years by now.
- soco 4y agoAlso Lenovo T495 same year - I'm typing on it right now.
- icedchai 4y agoYou are mostly right, but AMD laptops have been available for years. One of my few Windows systems is an HP Envy x360 laptop with an AMD 4500U, from mid-2020.
- 0cf8612b2e1e 4y agoI also blame Intel as the reason ECC memory is not the standard in everything.
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- adrian_b 4y agoYes, I am old enough to remember the years 1994/1995, when Intel has introduced the split between the "Pentium Pro" CPUs intended for "professionals" who should pay dearly for the right of having computers that function without errors, and the "Pentium" CPUs (2nd generation Pentium @ 90/100 MHz), intended for the naive laymen, whose computers are not important, so it does not matter if their computers make mistakes from time to time. This market segmentation introduced by Intel has broken the tradition created by IBM, who had taken care from the beginning to provide the IBM PC with error-detecting memory.