Dell stops selling AMD-powered machines online
By Nilay Patel 
posted February 7th 2008 8:02PM
posted February 7th 2008 8:02PM
Update: As many of you have noticed, Dell's website is pretty inconsistent, showing the statement above but still offering a couple AMD machines for sale. We've got a call in, we'll hit you with info when we get this cleared up.
Update 2: Dell says that AMD-powered consumer machines are retail-only, but that business-grade machines will still be sold online. Still, it looks like this was pretty badly botched -- check out the full scoop on what Dell told us here.
[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]
@John Doe: If they were designed to be desktop replacements, woulden't they be the equivalent of desktops then? 7200RPM drives, full-speed CPU, standard keyboard-sized keys, nice big and bright LCD with no ghosting, etc.
Oh, no. They don't. Why? Because they have to use the tiniest of parts, and the cream-of-the-crop CPU, and then they under volt them so they run cooler so the laptop doesn't melt off your 'special purpose' when you are trying to use it on the airplane from NYC to ATL, on route to YYZ through COL. Not only taking up a bunch of room, but also making it hard for me to sleep with your constant tapping of those plastic keys. Why should I have to listen to you tap away on some TPS report just because you didn't have enough time in the office where you should be...
Sorry. I got a bit off topic there. Back on again.
Laptops were designed to be portable--otherwise they would be a desktop. I mean, why cram all the technology in the world down to a
You guys need to check your facts, The Inspiron 531 (powered by AMD Turion) Desktop and the Inspiron 1501 (Powered by AMD) are both still available for sale on www.dell.com. This is extremely poor reporting.
Yup, the link in the story shows all kinds of AMD machines available online. Or did I miss something?
Doh I apparently missed most of the paragraph. It's definitely past my bedtime.
I mentioned this above: but go AMD Dell for their Energy Star compliant models. Still listed & available, I would presume.
AMD, please clean up your act, we need you!
dell? what's that?
is it anything like newegg?
first of all their CEO Mr. Hector Ruiz needs to stop giving himself pay hikes and bonuses
http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/35301/122/
who would care for a company when the CEO himself does not give a sh*t...
dell sucks ...
Intel (today) means two processors with max 8 cores (realistically). With AMD, you can have 8 processors and 32 cores. As more consolidation continues and virtualization escalates... AMD starts looking very attractive on the server side. My guess is that we're just talking about desktops and laptops.
But still... AMD makes a better processor price wise (10-20% less performance at less than half the price).
Mistake? My guess is that if demand for AMD picks up, Dell will sell AMD again. It's just a matter of time. With that said, AMD really, really, really, really needs to figure out what it is doing and they need to deliver a platform that is just a stable as Intel (I'm posting from a 4-way Opteron box, if that matters).
I've always found it irritating that most of the biggest Dell discounts seemed to be on their AMD machines, now I know why - they were just trying to get rid of all their old inventory.
Still, true AMD believers should have nothing to cry over - they should be building their own machines from scratch because if AMD is really the cool rebel choice why would you give over $$$ to a megacorp like Dell, HP, Gateway or IBM?
at least AMD does not steal projects from universitys...
on the other side Intel is being sued cause something like that right?
Did anyone at Engadget bother to actually take a look at the Dell website? They are still selling AMD on both the Home and Small Business websites.
The Optiplex 740 "AMD Powered Solution" is still there on the small business site. And the Inspiron 531 is still there on the home site.
Engadget needs to issue a correction... well... unless this report is some kind of nasty Intel tactics to generate FUD.
The reason, I think, behind the lack of AMD offerings is that AMD is no longer making any dual cores. The tri-core idea is hopefully dead to, and its been rumored that Phenom quad cores will make it into AMD laptops at low power.
Even if they only run at 1.2 gigahertz, it'd be the first quad core offering in a laptop other than a few custom laptops which squeeze desktop quad cores inside. And the performance of a quad core, considering that OS needs can be ran on a core, one program on another and another on another, with music playing in the background, would make a quad core laptop an awfully attractive business app. I have yet to meet an accountant who doesn't have an SQL Server, Spreadsheet, and web browser running all at once, and I am studying to be one, I have a good chance of knowing.
It'd also offer superior performance for the student laptop market, as they too will be running multiple crap at once.
This is a perfect example of totally irresponsible Blogging! If anyone would take the time to actually go to the Dell web site they would find there all the AMD models on there today there was 6 months ago.
This is total BULL-SHIT!!!!
Is this story actually even correct? The link goes to the small business section.Not the entire site. Energy Star compliant systems based on AMD X2 are still being sold. There is an AMD Optiplex available and servers based on the Opteron available on the site. I tested all the way to checkout and they are available. This is weak reporting. Maybe the call in to Dell should have been made before the story was posted? Weak!
Alexander,
You don't "get" the Intel vs AMD yet you clearly show that you prefer AMD, so you are part of the Intel vs AMD ranting-just like the rest of us. Try and be a little intellectually honest.
And no, a CPU is not just a CPU, unless all you are doing is a little web surfing and office type stuff.