Friday, November 11th, 2005, 5:48 am
Farewell Intel, Welcome AMD
Filed under: In short, I read the following item, which I believe is old news despite the datestamp:
The world’s largest maker of personal computers, Dell, has reported a fall in third-quarter profits after taking a charge to repair faulty parts.
Putting two and two together, the following item on bad Intel capacitors got Slashdotted a short while ago:
At issue are faulty capacitors on motherboards that store power and regulate voltage. Defective capacitors found in the Dell Optiplex workstations, some Apple iMac G5s, HP xw-series workstations made in 2004 and PCs with the Intel D865GBF motherboard have been found to bulge, pop, leak and crust over, causing video failure and periodic system shutdowns.
I have recently discovered a UK shop that sells laptops without an operating system (i.e. without Windows) and offers many AMD options too. Thus, they are entitled to have a link.
Related link: Linux on the laptop
