However, they are still largely an unknown to people not "in the know". I remember telling my roommates about my sweet new AMD X2 in college and they just sort of looked at me like I was speaking gibberish. If I would have told them I had a new Intel CPU they would have definitely at least known what the hell I was talking about.
I have to call BS on that, no one who understands what a Processor is clueless to who AMD is. more to the point, there isnt anyone who knows who intel is and what they make yet not know AMD. if your "buddies" never heard of an Athlon x2. chances are they never heard of a c2d or Nehalem, or even knows how to build a system.
Your Buddy- Hey Silent, hae you seen the specs on the new core i7? it has Hyperthreading and an integrated Memory controller.
You- Yeah finally Intel added an IMC like AMD did with the Athlon x2's
Your buddy- A.m. Who? and whats an Athlon x2? are you smoking that happy grass again? You must be, how else can you imply that there is another chip maker other than intel. haha, a Company named AMD makes chips too, what a joke, next thing your going to say is that our economy is in the crapper.
You. no seriously, there is a company called AMD, they make micro-processors just like Intel does. they have been around for quite sometime now.
Yeah. I cant see that conversation happening, if you have buddy's who have heard of Intel and never heard of AMD, I guarantee none of what we talk about on [H] applies to them and are not in the market for any shelf processor