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walsufnir on 13 May 2014
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rolltide101x said:
walsufnir said:
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A big part of that is due to it being harder to find computers with AMD and most people not even realizing the difference. All my PCs for now on will be powered by AMD I like them for taking a stand for consoles and I am mad at Nvidia for comparing 1000$+ GPUS to a 400$ console lol


I would want to correct with "and most people not even caring about the difference". People who buy IGPs intentionally (whether AMD or Intel) are not the hardcore gamers, anyway. I don't know about the current state of tech regarding Notebook tech but Intel was intentionally chosen far more often in Notebooks as their designs generally had way better TDP and idle power consumption. IIRC the Turion never had a chance against Centrino based Notebooks and therefore only a few barebones featured AMD tech.

AMD notebooks tend to have a longer battery life than Intel ones from my experience. I do not know the facts though. I think anyone would take an A4 over a Centrino if they knew the differences. It is the AMD E-series that is really bad.


I always bought expensive notebooks so I don't know about AMD and only the stuff that was some years ago.

I never used them for gaming and to me it was especially important to have a high Linux compatibility which is almost always guaranteed with Intel hardware.

So if you buy a Dell Latitude or a Thinkpad "lspci" (a Linux command line utility which will list pci-devices) will show a lot of Intel hardware. If you buy cheap, you get cheap. And this also means damn cheap Linux support.

I know a lot of people who would easily spend more money to get rock-solid hardware which is Linux-compatible and don't give a sh** about gpu-performance.