[mdlug] Intel GMA500 No Love f/Linux

[David Lane]

Well, Intel needs a competitor to keep them honest, AMD is the reason that we have 64 bit for under $100.



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From: Aaron Kulkis <akulkis00 at gmail.com>
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Sent: Mon, June 28, 2010 11:51:00 PM
Subject: Re: [mdlug] Intel GMA500 No Love f/Linux

Michael Rudas wrote:
> --- Peter Bart wrote:
> 
>> How Intel can put out something like the GMA500 chip; while working
>> on Moblin and now Meego; is beyond me. What a mess!
> 
> This kind of thing is one of the many reasons that I use and recommend
> AMD instead.  I've NEVER trusted Intel in the 30+ years I've worked
> with CPUs.  I do realize that most current netbooks use either Intel
> or ARM variants (including the upcoming nVidia Tegra series) but there
> are AMD-based netbooks and tablets on the way.
>

I remember seeing some data books for product offering by
Intel and AMD back in the mid-80's.  Advanced Micro-Devices
certainly live up to their audacious name compared to Intel's
run-of-the-mill slop.

It's too bad the Motorola 68x00 series died a premature death
due to not inferior hardware, but due to the criminal actions of
Microsoft, and MS-DOS and MS-Windows running only on Intel CPUs.
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