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You know guys, when the PIII and the PIII Coppermine came out everyone was like happy, AMD with their K5's K6's K6-2's sucked. They got their act together made the orginal Athlon, which by the way wasn't that great. They improved the Athlon core almost 10-fold with the TBird and Palamino. Now everyone is jumping ship over to AMD and the key phrase these days in the fourms and chats is "Intel sucks!". Intel sucks only because they are going through a bit of downtime as far as creativity. Intel isn't down and out for good, every company is allowed to do this, they can't avoid it. When Intel bounces back on AMD, everyone will jump ship and the key phrase will be "AMD sucks!", its practically a given. And even right this second, Intel doesn't totally suck, their P4 isn't a flop as so many people call it. I have seen these machines in action and they don't just suck. AMD may own when it comes to FPU, but single integer calculations that Windows and most of its various applications make Intel still does good at it. In the Datacenter enviroment AMD isn't generally excepted unless its in a large cluster, why?? because in a large cluster failure isn't a big deal. Intel is trusted for reliability and thats why large corpoations use Intel. These large business have IT staff that do extensive research when picking an OEM and a model, I know we did at work. They need something that has speed to it, and is reliable. Its as simple as that.