The Intel plant is just up the railline from my home - about ten minutes on a train. I've been in there and it's monstrous. You get a sense of the scale of the operation... It's like living next door to Genom. It has that big, monolithic corporate feel inside. The interview was held in what amounted to an abandoned cubicle-farm. There's something about the place that really didn't sit well with me when I was there. It was ominous and big inside...
Truth. The A10 with some proper fast RAM is at least on par with an i3/low-i5 system with a cheaper discrete GPU.... and works out cheaper on power and in cash, because Intel's integrated graphics are still a bit crap despite money being flung at the problem hand-over-fist, especially on the bottom-end chips. Assimilating ATI is probably the best thing AMD have done to save themselves, because it gives a real edge.
Best option is to build your own, it's what I had to do to get exactly what I wanted. Works out cheaper, and aside from a little troubleshooting caused by a knackered DVD drive, didn't take that much longer than de-crapifying something straight from the manufacturer.
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Quote:and if you are looking to max performance per $ then AMD can't be beat.
Truth. The A10 with some proper fast RAM is at least on par with an i3/low-i5 system with a cheaper discrete GPU.... and works out cheaper on power and in cash, because Intel's integrated graphics are still a bit crap despite money being flung at the problem hand-over-fist, especially on the bottom-end chips. Assimilating ATI is probably the best thing AMD have done to save themselves, because it gives a real edge.
Quote:at times I still have trouble trying to find a good AMD option when I shop around for laptops and desktops.
Best option is to build your own, it's what I had to do to get exactly what I wanted. Works out cheaper, and aside from a little troubleshooting caused by a knackered DVD drive, didn't take that much longer than de-crapifying something straight from the manufacturer.
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