[ale] ot: cpu laptop

[Neal Rhodes]

Well, I have on one corner of my Desk an HP Pavillion notebook with AMD
components.   It has apparently gotten too hot watching BBC shows on
Acorn, and the GPU has de-soldered itself from the board.    And
apparently this is a known behavior of HP notebooks with AMD components.
While shopping for an Intel replacement, even at the low tech Office
Depot if you say "No, I don't want to look at HP nor AMD" they say "oh,
you must have been burned by your AMD GPU, eh?". 

Thus an HP/AMD computer has the lonely status of the ONLY computer I or
my company has ever owned which will not now boot up.  I have a few
still that are obsolete, but at least they will power up.  

So, I have no sympathy for AMD.  Or HP. 

Neal Rhodes
(formerly HP Netserver certified) 

On Mon, 2015-03-30 at 13:29 -0400, Jim Kinney wrote:

> Ouch. 
> 
> AMD is not doing well. After kicking Intel in the teeth a decade ago
> with the Opteron they ran into build issues, stumbled, and have never
> recovered their momentum. They still don't have a PCIe v.3 capable
> chipset. It's been 4+ years since PCIe v.3 came out. That alone will
> kill them in the server market. 
> 
> Their consumer cpu's are still a better bang for buck line-up than Intel
> but they can't sell enough of what looks like last year's technology to
> the gamer crowd or the business box buyer.
> 
> I don't expect to see them around in 2020 and that will be a bad thing.
> 
> On Mon, 2015-03-30 at 13:21 -0400, Boris Borisov wrote:
> > Today in microcenter i didn't see any AMD based laptop ...
> > 
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