[ale] AMD to Retire ATI Graphics Brand

[Ron Frazier]

The article made it sound like they were discontinuing discrete graphics 
altogether.  That's why I made that comment.  I hope I was mistaken.

Ron

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