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Close Encounter of the Dell Kind
"ToshiroOC" describes a close encounter he had with Michael Dell at the "International Summit of Young Technology Leaders":
As I was reading the article on ZDNet that you so kindly posted so all of us informed techies could get a good laugh, I remembered what Michael Dell said during an open-session Q&A that I had the opportunity to attend.
One of my good friends David asked Michael Dell why Dell refused to use AMD based products despite greater performance and lower price compared to Intel. Mr. Dell looked somewhat perturbed and hesitated before saying "Well, I guess that would be a good idea if AMD still had good performance, and if I remember correctly, the last time AMD was better than Intel was 1986."
When asked about the Opteron processors, he said, without hesitation at all, "Ah, yes, well, at Dell we are devoted to giving our customers the best solutions possible and AMD's Hammer processor, or the Opteron, is something we are very closely analyzing. Next question."
Just something for thought.
As I was reading the article on ZDNet that you so kindly posted so all of us informed techies could get a good laugh, I remembered what Michael Dell said during an open-session Q&A that I had the opportunity to attend.
One of my good friends David asked Michael Dell why Dell refused to use AMD based products despite greater performance and lower price compared to Intel. Mr. Dell looked somewhat perturbed and hesitated before saying "Well, I guess that would be a good idea if AMD still had good performance, and if I remember correctly, the last time AMD was better than Intel was 1986."
When asked about the Opteron processors, he said, without hesitation at all, "Ah, yes, well, at Dell we are devoted to giving our customers the best solutions possible and AMD's Hammer processor, or the Opteron, is something we are very closely analyzing. Next question."
Just something for thought.
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