http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/17/dell-to-release-tri-core-amd-business-machine/ Engadget Comments for Dell to release tri-core AMD business machine? http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2008 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/17/dell-to-release-tri-core-amd-business-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/17/dell-to-release-tri-core-amd-business-machine/Feb 17th 2008 12:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/17/dell-to-release-tri-core-amd-business-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/17/dell-to-release-tri-core-amd-business-machine/Feb 17th 2008 2:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/17/dell-to-release-tri-core-amd-business-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/17/dell-to-release-tri-core-amd-business-machine/Feb 17th 2008 2:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/17/dell-to-release-tri-core-amd-business-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/17/dell-to-release-tri-core-amd-business-machine/Feb 17th 2008 3:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/17/dell-to-release-tri-core-amd-business-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/17/dell-to-release-tri-core-amd-business-machine/
AMD is full of fail right now. So is Apple, but I guess they have always been that way ;)]]>Feb 17th 2008 4:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/17/dell-to-release-tri-core-amd-business-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/17/dell-to-release-tri-core-amd-business-machine/Feb 17th 2008 5:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/17/dell-to-release-tri-core-amd-business-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/17/dell-to-release-tri-core-amd-business-machine/.. Or not. RTFA]]>Feb 17th 2008 8:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/17/dell-to-release-tri-core-amd-business-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/17/dell-to-release-tri-core-amd-business-machine/Feb 17th 2008 9:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/17/dell-to-release-tri-core-amd-business-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/17/dell-to-release-tri-core-amd-business-machine/Feb 17th 2008 1:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/17/dell-to-release-tri-core-amd-business-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/17/dell-to-release-tri-core-amd-business-machine/
My last college were still using Pentium IV Celerons and Windows 2000 in every library workstation as of last year. They haven't updated ever since I started there many years ago. If you think that's bad, my elementary school are still using IBM PS/2 and Macintosh IIc computers in their computer labs, and I graduated from there in 1994.

*sigh*

It would be nice if the schools a whee bit more cash towards updating their computers for their students. These Tri-core or dual-core would be perfect since they're affordable.

Amazingly, my high school actually updates their computers. They now have Windows XP and MS Office 2007 on all their PCs in the only computer lab on campus with Intel Core Duo CPUs (cheap, affordable ones of course).]]>Feb 17th 2008 2:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/17/dell-to-release-tri-core-amd-business-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/17/dell-to-release-tri-core-amd-business-machine/Feb 17th 2008 2:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/17/dell-to-release-tri-core-amd-business-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/17/dell-to-release-tri-core-amd-business-machine/Feb 17th 2008 2:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/17/dell-to-release-tri-core-amd-business-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/17/dell-to-release-tri-core-amd-business-machine/]]>Feb 17th 2008 3:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/17/dell-to-release-tri-core-amd-business-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/17/dell-to-release-tri-core-amd-business-machine/Feb 17th 2008 4:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/17/dell-to-release-tri-core-amd-business-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/17/dell-to-release-tri-core-amd-business-machine/Feb 17th 2008 4:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/17/dell-to-release-tri-core-amd-business-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/17/dell-to-release-tri-core-amd-business-machine/Feb 17th 2008 4:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/17/dell-to-release-tri-core-amd-business-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/17/dell-to-release-tri-core-amd-business-machine/
Have you ever used OSX? First time I used it I was like "Look it's Linux, but only a few programs work with it!".

Linux is actually pretty good now, before it used to lack that Finish, but it's come a long way.]]>Feb 17th 2008 5:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/17/dell-to-release-tri-core-amd-business-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/17/dell-to-release-tri-core-amd-business-machine/
I wouldn't blame that on the computers or Windows though. My university's windows machines use Novell, which really works pretty well, runs most engineering apps fairly quickly on a mixture of P IV, Pentium D, and a few Core 2. All the settings and profiles are saved and everything behaves the same no matter what computer you are on. Although I use the older non HT PIV's with Debian for most things.

Does anyone else have a bunch of ridiculous Sun SPARC workstations around that never get used?]]>Feb 17th 2008 9:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/17/dell-to-release-tri-core-amd-business-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/17/dell-to-release-tri-core-amd-business-machine/Feb 17th 2008 9:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/17/dell-to-release-tri-core-amd-business-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/17/dell-to-release-tri-core-amd-business-machine/Feb 17th 2008 2:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/17/dell-to-release-tri-core-amd-business-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/17/dell-to-release-tri-core-amd-business-machine/Feb 17th 2008 2:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/17/dell-to-release-tri-core-amd-business-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/17/dell-to-release-tri-core-amd-business-machine/Feb 17th 2008 4:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/17/dell-to-release-tri-core-amd-business-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/17/dell-to-release-tri-core-amd-business-machine/Feb 17th 2008 7:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/17/dell-to-release-tri-core-amd-business-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/17/dell-to-release-tri-core-amd-business-machine/Feb 17th 2008 7:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/17/dell-to-release-tri-core-amd-business-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/17/dell-to-release-tri-core-amd-business-machine/Feb 17th 2008 5:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/17/dell-to-release-tri-core-amd-business-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/17/dell-to-release-tri-core-amd-business-machine/
windows does it to an extent.. but not very well

that's why people downplay ( and rightfully so ) the power of quad-core systems, there just arn't any quad-core apps out there.]]>Feb 17th 2008 7:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/17/dell-to-release-tri-core-amd-business-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/17/dell-to-release-tri-core-amd-business-machine/
i love both..

and i guess im going through the 5 stages of coping with their death]]>Feb 17th 2008 7:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/17/dell-to-release-tri-core-amd-business-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/17/dell-to-release-tri-core-amd-business-machine/Feb 17th 2008 7:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/17/dell-to-release-tri-core-amd-business-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/17/dell-to-release-tri-core-amd-business-machine/Feb 17th 2008 11:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/17/dell-to-release-tri-core-amd-business-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/17/dell-to-release-tri-core-amd-business-machine/A tri core chip that should have been a quad core but wouldn't work..... AMD's sorting of there chips to 'increase yield' seems to be just an excuse to punt there '5hit that wouldn't work' onto some other sucker...... Sorry AMD you had the opportunity to kick Intel in the nuts.... but you messed it up proper!]]>Feb 18th 2008 12:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/17/dell-to-release-tri-core-amd-business-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/17/dell-to-release-tri-core-amd-business-machine/
ATI once did the same thing (and may still for all I know) with their "high end" video cards. If the high end card failed to pass QA, but with some features disabled passed QA as a lower end card, they would re-badge that card and sell it off (I think this happened a lot in the 9600 series).

I don't know if ATI still does this anymore since I switched to Nvidia (8800gt Alpha Dog FTW!!!), but this recycling strategy might actually help ATI out of its current rut.]]>Feb 19th 2008 12:40PM