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The Vista-Driven Long Case for Intel Corporation

If you are long on Intel I understand your arguments ;o)
but:
taken from dedicated Vista pages on AMD web:
"Today, all AMD processors are optimized for the next generation 64-bit versions of Windows Vista"

without mentioning the potential help of latest AMD-ATI graphic cards!

you start criticizing AMD, having bought an Intel based Centrino mobile !!
when AMD today's processor for this same speed of 1.6GHz is offering 64 bit and dual core! with the turion64X2 but also higher than 2Ghz processors!
and you initially bought a machine with 512K memory when any magazine(even non specialized!) already warned that 1G was the bare minimum for Vista !
you may understand now why it was so cheap to buy an outdated stock with outdated processor from Intel!

I agree with you that Intel improved their product line but:
to use or not AMD to run Vista is not demonstrated at all by your arguments in this article.
you should also be aware that Toshiba is one of the latest main laptop manufacturer to have adopted AMD processors. After HP and some other big players like DELL, ACER,Gateway, FUJITSU, ...