<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Zitat:</font><HR>AMD's profile still low
La Intella very high
By Mike Magee, 17/08/2001 12:39:03 BST
MARKET RESEARCH FIGURES seen by the INQUIRER have revealed that AMD's profile in the USA is still miserably low, compared to Big Brother Intel.
A survey of big retail stores also shows that speed and performance - raw megahurts as we call it here - still sways buyers of PCs.
That should offer some encouragement for Intel but demonstrates that journalists are still not educating the public about the real factors that make a PC sing, dance, whistle and jig.
The survey of specialist sales staff at the biggest retailers such as CompUSA and Circuit City, showed that 48.7 per cent believed most customers still prefer Intel, 49.7 per cent expressed no preference, while a meage 1.5 per cent said they thought AMD was better.
One multi-choice question illustrated the decisions the sales staff thought customers made for choosing one chip over the other.
In this question, 53.7 per cent chose speed, 65.3 per cent performance, 11.1 per cent compatibility, 44 per cent reliability, 44 per cent cost, 10.6 per cent brand loyalty, and 4.2 per cent cited "other reasons".
When asked whether the brand of processor should play an important role in which PC a customer chooses, the answers were illuminating.
Responses included "customers can be lead to any processor depending on the likes of the sales reps", "the processor is the heart of the PC and should be selected to match the home user".
A large number believed that the AMD Athlon processor was a better CPU than Intel's, but that figure is barely represented in the other figures we saw. µ[/quote]
das sagt doch alles, jede Diskussion über AMD vs. Intel ist jetzt überflüssig <IMG SRC="smilies/wink.gif" border="0">... nein war nur nen Scherz <IMG SRC="smilies/tongue.gif" border="0"> ....
La Intella very high
By Mike Magee, 17/08/2001 12:39:03 BST
MARKET RESEARCH FIGURES seen by the INQUIRER have revealed that AMD's profile in the USA is still miserably low, compared to Big Brother Intel.
A survey of big retail stores also shows that speed and performance - raw megahurts as we call it here - still sways buyers of PCs.
That should offer some encouragement for Intel but demonstrates that journalists are still not educating the public about the real factors that make a PC sing, dance, whistle and jig.
The survey of specialist sales staff at the biggest retailers such as CompUSA and Circuit City, showed that 48.7 per cent believed most customers still prefer Intel, 49.7 per cent expressed no preference, while a meage 1.5 per cent said they thought AMD was better.
One multi-choice question illustrated the decisions the sales staff thought customers made for choosing one chip over the other.
In this question, 53.7 per cent chose speed, 65.3 per cent performance, 11.1 per cent compatibility, 44 per cent reliability, 44 per cent cost, 10.6 per cent brand loyalty, and 4.2 per cent cited "other reasons".
When asked whether the brand of processor should play an important role in which PC a customer chooses, the answers were illuminating.
Responses included "customers can be lead to any processor depending on the likes of the sales reps", "the processor is the heart of the PC and should be selected to match the home user".
A large number believed that the AMD Athlon processor was a better CPU than Intel's, but that figure is barely represented in the other figures we saw. µ[/quote]
das sagt doch alles, jede Diskussion über AMD vs. Intel ist jetzt überflüssig <IMG SRC="smilies/wink.gif" border="0">... nein war nur nen Scherz <IMG SRC="smilies/tongue.gif" border="0"> ....
