Gateway drops AMD

[OnDborder]

What do you think is going to happen next now that Gateway has decided not to go with AMD cpu's now?

[el]

Gateway is doomed :)


their boxes suck anyhow. nobody here buys them so doesn't really matter. I wouldn't want a gateway if it was free.

Gateway can stick to P4 with PC133 for all I care.

[Eil Atan]

I agree with el...

gateway used to make good computers, but I wouldn't buy one for my grandmother anymore... although I would take one if it was free, but not like that's gonna happen!! :D :D

[train22]

Gateaway will go down and it deserves it, it highly overprices it's shall I say $#!Ty comps, I found this article where they were being naile for their price and they responded with somthing like "Money paid is for the great, long lasting tech support and warrentee."

[OnDborder]

Yes I agree with the opinions on their computers but what a "income" hit it is to AMD. Not everybody is as knowledgable on computers as some.

[el]

good point and if llamas think the gateway is good then they will think they are dropping AMD cuz they are bad. I hate to admit it but AMD kinda needed Gateway. I think AMD will be fine but the Northwood is the real fear.

[JAWS]

Originally posted by el
Gateway is doomed :)


their boxes suck anyhow. nobody here buys them so doesn't really matter. I wouldn't want a gateway if it was free.

Gateway can stick to P4 with PC133 for all I care.

Took the words right out of my mouth. I think it was Gateway's problem, not AMD's.

[Slaught]

Hmmmm, but i think it is better when a company, especially a such a big one is using a product, even if they make sucky machines, as at least its giving AMD some more needed cash. People will be much more likely to think that AMD are crap if they arent being used.

I dont think it matters that we all know gateway and just about every other major manufactuerer sucks, because they drive the market to a certain degree, if it wasnt for all the less knowledgable people who were buying all the systems, the market would be smaller and there would be less choice, less competition, so i guess that would then lead to higher prices.

Also being used by a major company, no matter how crap, gives lots of free advertising, just look at all the ads on TV you see with Intel inside jingle.

[UnseenMenace]

Originally posted by Slaught
Also being used by a major company, no matter how crap, gives lots of free advertising, just look at all the ads on TV you see with Intel inside jingle.

Did'nt they drop the jingle a few years back?
All I seem to currently see on TV is the new blue dudes..
those blue men apparently they are some kind of strange American band

[Slaught]

yeh, that music rocks :cool:

but im sure ive seen the jingle recently

[mbigna]

I think Gateway's new advertising explains all. Ted Waitt is taking advice from talking cows. Either that or he is taking enough drugs/smoking too many joints that he hallucinates that he is taking advice from a talking cow.

What ever it is, it is obviously affecting his memory. It hasn't been that long ago that Gateway began offering AMD based machines because Intel couldn't supply them enough chips at one point. And this in addition to Intel's public ralations debacle at about the same time when they were refusing to replace defective chips to all but major corporate users.

If you don't support competition (AMD), you are allowing the monopoly (Intel) the opportunity to screw us all over again in the future.

...Sorta like Micro$haft does to us all now.

[Slaught]

I think thats why i liked AMD in the first place, Intel was everywhere, and i wanted to be...different. :)

[Kingslayer]

I'm going to try and be as anti-AMD as I possibly can here.

When AMD said that Intel was raping the processor Mhz rating you all joined in. When AMD said that it wasn't fair because people only bought the stickers on the box, you all joined in. Because it is true. 90% of computer buyers are uneducated about computer hardware and will only buy for the Mhz sticker on the box.

With this taken into mind, and Intel leading the Mhz war at the moment. It is a good move for Gateway to drop AMD, and start putting those 2Ghz stickers from Intel all over those stupid cow boxes and grab that 90% ratio of computer buyers. It is a good marketting move from a company on the brink of bankruptcy.

I was suprised that so many of you starting wishing ill fate to Gateway just because they dropped AMD. I mean come on, isn't it better for AMD not to be associated with a company like Gateway?

[Thelemac]

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