John H. wrote:
;-)


I defer to your expertise. But why go with a cheap AMD?

When I returned my Dell with an Intel chip, I purchased a AMD chip,
because all of the speed test run on the software I used showed AMD was
outperforming the equivalent Intel chip.

I could see a substantial increase in speed between the two computers,
but i am not sure how much of that was the CPU and how much was the
computer set up and preinstalled trialware, freeware, spyware and
bloatware installed on the machines. Gateway puts on substantially less
than Dell.

On Tue, 30 Oct 2007 07:42:06 -0400, "Reginald P. Smithers III"
wrote:

John H. wrote:
;-)


I defer to your expertise. But why go with a cheap AMD?

When I returned my Dell with an Intel chip, I purchased a AMD chip,
because all of the speed test run on the software I used showed AMD was
outperforming the equivalent Intel chip.

I could see a substantial increase in speed between the two computers,
but i am not sure how much of that was the CPU and how much was the
computer set up and preinstalled trialware, freeware, spyware and
bloatware installed on the machines. Gateway puts on substantially less
than Dell.

I think the high end Gateways are using the Intel processor now. It seems
like the race between Intel and AMD is always changing leaders.

I agree with your comments about Dell. It takes a while to get rid of junk
Dell puts on their machines. I don't think I'll buy from Dell again. The
next one will be home built or built at the shop where I'd buy the parts.
I'll probably let them build it just so I'll have someone to complain to if
there's a problem. I added a gig of ram a few months ago and noticed some
improvement in speed with this Dell, so I'm pretty satisfied with it now. I
bought a 160gig Seagate external hard drive, so I've plenty of room now.