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Re: First impression have a lasting effect.
Absolutely true.

Back when I worked for a screwdriver shop, they were Intel only on white boxes*. Why? Because against their recommendation, one customer insisted on buying an AMD chip for the system they were building. The system was in and out of the shop for months. Finally they put an Intel chip in it (no other changes), and it ran just fine. To the best of my knowledge, the Sr. Tech who had that problem still will not recommend AMD chips.

*For laptops they didn't care. There was so much proprietary hardware involved, those were shipped back to the factory for repair. This line of business worked more like WalMart than what I think of as the screwdriver part of the shop.
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Oh for heavens sake...  BitTwiddler | 04/08/04
AMD has only a fraction of Intel's  skeptic tank | 04/08/04
also...  jdahs@... | 04/08/04
Intels edge  Spoon Jabber | 04/08/04
Chip competition is in Microsoft's best interest  toadlife | 04/08/04
I'm not sure that is ture for MS.  Laff | 04/09/04
Re: Chip competition is in Microsoft's best interest  Rabid Conservative | 04/09/04
Wait a minute,  richdave | 04/09/04
re: Chip competition is in Microsoft's best interest  Wolfie2K3 | 04/09/04
Re: Intels edge  Wolfie2K3 | 04/09/04
re: reputation  ryusen | 04/08/04
They still think of the old K6 chips  voska | 04/08/04
I still have a K-6 II, 350 Mhz  Spoon Jabber | 04/08/04
My K6 233 was great  toadlife | 04/08/04
Re: First impression have a lasting effect.  Rabid Conservative | 04/09/04
Stop living in the past  NnyanTengwar | 04/09/04
Re: stop living in the past.  Wolfie2K3 | 04/09/04
re (2): Reputation  Wolfie2K3 | 04/09/04
Compatibility  Sand_man | 04/08/04
Big factor!  bjbrock | 04/11/04

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