5 Nov
2005
5 Nov
'05
3:02 p.m.
In message <436AA126.3010107 at yahoo.co.uk>
Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
- where there's likely not a lot to choose between
the two on average
when all factors are taken into account - I find it interesting that I'd
go for the AMD guys on the grounds that they have the less-irritating
advertising.
Hm, I've never seen an AMD advert on TV. Or in any other form of mainstream
media for that matter.
I have, however, read a lot of comparative reviews that put the Pentium 4
against the AthlonXP and Athlon64, and the AMD chips tend to do better (in
clockspeed-for-clockspeed tests). Not to mention the cost factor.
I guess it's only recently (relatively) that
computer-related ads have
been commonplace on mainstream TV though. In the olden days they would
have been magazine ads and much easier to skip over if at all annoying!
I stopped reading PC magazines over a year ago. I switched my PCPlus
subscription for a Circuit Cellar sub, saved ?35 a year and haven't looked
back.
?5.95 an issue is a really crap deal, especially when 90% of the content is
advertising. Circuit Cellar is similar, but seeing as it's only $15 (IIRC) a
year, I'll put up with the adverts. After all, that's what the "Next
Page"
button in Acrobat Reader is for :)
Later.
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