Europeans Continue to Flock to AMD

[porina]

3 minutes ago, leadeater said:

1. Support

2. Reliability

3. Ordering process and delivery time

4. Pricing

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100. Performance

I think we can simplify that some more:

1, anything that makes life easier for IT

2, anything else

[leadeater]

1 minute ago, porina said:

I think we can simplify that some more:

1, anything that makes life easier for IT

2, anything else

Yep, we have a PC ordering portal and you get 3 choices (per type i.e PC, laptop, Mac, Mac laptop) which are for example over spec i5 system or an even more over spec i7 system or finally a way over spec Z4 workstation + Quadro. Pick one, doesn't matter all the options are far more than you need, usually.

[minibois]

8 hours ago, Jito463 said:

What I find funny are those (who work in the tech field, no less) which say "Intel just works", as if there's something magical about Intel processors that makes them more compatible than AMD.

It's also totally possible they just haven't used AMD (in a long time) and only have experience with Intel. Which works all the time for them.

By saying Intel 'works all the time', they aren't nescecarily implying AMD is always broken; they could be saying they don't have experience with AMD.. But it's difficult to know someone's reasoning behind that..

11 hours ago, mr moose said:

I haven't seen that, but I'll accept it happens.

I am mainly dealing with non-business consumers, which do often make that argument.

(Or sometimes even the worse version "my father's uncle's grandson's nephew's buddy told me to not get AMD" or similar)

1 hour ago, leadeater said:

For the corporate clients there is more to it. You have OS deployment workflows and driver packaging, all of which is done already and the drivers are generally common across multiple models and even generations. Switching to AMD requires a whole lot of deployment testing of systems to make sure the new set of drivers install completely successfully and correctly.

Sure, I can see that being the case.

 

My original comment was mainly with the thought process of it being applicable to regular consumers, who build a PC every 5-10 years and thus do not have the problems mentioned before.

For companies there is something to be said about 'being used to something'.

Same for them picking a certain vendor of motherboard even, because certain features are called the same on the entire platform.. While another mobo vendor might call it something different.

[Doobeedoo]

Quite true, I know dozen people with new builds. Also there are those game bundles too. 

[mr moose]

9 hours ago, minibois said:

I am mainly dealing with non-business consumers, which do often make that argument.

(Or sometimes even the worse version "my father's uncle's grandson's nephew's buddy told me to not get AMD" or similar)

Sure, I can see that being the case.

 

Now that definitely is a thing, I have witnessed that first hand myself.    however if we are being honest, it does come of the back of AMD being non existent in the CPU market for quite a long time.  I don't begrudge naive consumers, I just try to educate them a bit better, however i have no tolerance for people on a tech forum who make those claims (just in case anyone didn't notice).