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<font face="Arial, Helvetica">The article made it sound like they were
discontinuing discrete graphics altogether. That's why I made that
comment. I hope I was mistaken.<br><br>
Ron<br><br>
At 9/1/2010 09:59 AM -0400, Jim Kinney wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>They're not dumping the hardware
(or engineers) just the name.<br><br>
On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 9:37 AM, Ron Frazier
<<a href="mailto:atllinuxenthinfo@c3energy.com">atllinuxenthinfo@c3energy.com</a>>
wrote:
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<dd>Unbelievable. Â I think this will be bad for people who like high end
<dd>hardware. Â I've been somewhat of an ATI / AMD fan of late. Â I'll
throw out
<dd>the disclaimer that I cannot currently afford high end hardware. Â
However,
<dd>I did build a pc last year and I chose an MSI motherboard that is
CAPABLE
<dd>of using high end components. Â Right now, it's stocked with an AMD
Athlon
<dd>X2 dual core CPU and an cheap ATI 4xxx series graphics card. Â I was
hoping
<dd>to upgrade later when I have the money to a Phenom 6 core CPU and 2-4
<dd>crossfire linked ATI graphics cards. Â (Still not sure I'd want to
spend a
<dd>grand on graphics cards, though.) Â If this had been their policy
before, it
<dd>doesn't seem like I would have been able to get a mid-high end
motherboard
<dd>and minimal integrated graphics. Â As usual, the geeks and engineers
get
<dd>dumped for the benefit of the mass market.<br><br>
<dd>Ron<br><br>
<dd>At 9/1/2010 12:17 PM +0000, you wrote:
<dd>>AMD to Retire ATI Graphics Brand
<dd>><a href="http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/amd-to-retire-ati-graphics-brand/?news=123">http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/amd-to-retire-ati-graphics-brand/?news=123</a>
<dd>>
<dd>><a href="http://preview.tinyurl.com/288fvsq" eudora="autourl">http://preview.tinyurl.com/288fvsq</a>
<dd>>
<dd>>keith
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