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grue@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

I’ve been buying AMD for – holy shit – 25 years now, and have never once regretted it. I don’t consider myself a fanboi; I just (a) prefer having the best performance-per-dollar rather than best performance outright, and (b) like rooting for the underdog.

But if Intel keeps fucking up like this, I might have to switch on grounds of (b)!

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___ (Realistically I’d be more likely to switch to ARM or even RISCV, though. Even if Intel became an underdog, my memory of their anti-competitive and anti-consumer bad behavior remains long.)

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SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Same here. I hate Intel so much, I won’t even work there, despite it being my current industry and having been headhunted by their recruiter. It was so satisfying to tell them to go to pound sand.

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- Gigasser@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  It’s good to feel proud of where you work. I’m not too sure on whether or not Intel treats their workers good though, do they?
  
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  - aard@kyu.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I did not sign with them after I had some issues with the contract provided, and the resulting interactions with my future manager. I’d say at least for someone from Europe the company culture is less than ideal from that encounter.
    
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- Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Ummblrag
  
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  - StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    …assssssholeeeee…
    
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  - SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I can see it might appear that way if you have no knowledge or experience with recruitment or recruiters. It’s especially common in my field as it can be hard to get qualified people.
    
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Damage@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I’ve been on AMD and ATi since the Athlon 64 days on the desktop.

Laptops are always Intel, simply because that’s what I can find, even if every time I scour the market extensively.

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- Krauerking@lemy.lol ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Honestly I was and am, an AMD fan but if you went back a few years you would not have wanted and AMD laptop. I had one and it was truly awful.
  
  Battery issues. Low processing power. App crashes and video playback issues. And this was on a more expensive one with a dedicated GPU…
  
  And then Ryclzen came out. You can get AMD laptops now and I mean that like as they actually are nice.
  
  But in 2013 it was Intel or you were better off with nothing.
  
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  - orangeboats@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Indeed, the Ryzen laptops are very nice! I have one (the 4800H) and it lasts ~8 hours on battery, far more than what I expected from laptops of this performance level. My last laptop barely achieved 4 hours of battery life.
    
    I had stability issues in the first year but after one of the BIOS updates it has been smooth as butter.
    
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  - Damage@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Yeah I never really considered them before Ryzen, but even afterwards, it’s been very difficult to find one with the specs I want.
    
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Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Sorry but after the amazing Athlon x2, the core and core 2 (then i series) lines fuckin wrecked AMD for YEARS. Ryzen took the belt back but AMD was absolutely wrecked through the core and i series.

Source: computer building company and also history

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- grue@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  AMD “bulldozer” architecture CPUs were indeed pretty bad compared to Intel Core 2, but they were also really cheap.
  
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- CancerMancer@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I ran an AMD Phenom II x4 955 Black Edition for ~5 years, then gave it to a friend who ran it for another 5 years. We overclocked the hell out of it up to 4ghz, and there is no way in hell you were getting gaming performance that good from Intel dollar-for-dollar, so no AMD did not suck from Core 2 on. You need to shift that timeframe up to Bulldozer, and even then Bulldozer and the other FX CPUs ended up aging better than their Intel counterparts, and at their adjusted prices were at least reasonable products.
  
  Doesn’t change the fact AMD lied about Bulldozer, nor does it change Intel using its market leader position to release single-digit performance increases for a decade and strip everything i5 and lower down to artificially make i7 more valuable. Funny how easy it is to forget how shit it was to be a PC gamer then after two crypto booms.
  
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FinalRemix@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I’ve had nothing but issues with some footers, laptops, etc…m once I discovered the common factor was Intel, I haven’t had a single problem with any of my devices since. AMD all the way for CPUs.

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TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I’m with you on all this. Fuck Intel.

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vxx@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I hate the way Intel is going, but I’ve been using Intel chips for over 30 years and never had an issue.

So your statement is kind of pointless, since it’s such a small data set, it’s irrelevant.

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nek0d3r@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Genuinely, I’ve also been an AMD buyer since I started building 12 years ago. I started out as a fan boy but mellowed out over the years. I know the old FX were garbage but it’s what I started on, and I genuinely enjoy the 4 gens of Intel since ivy bridge, but between the affordability and being able to upgrade without changing the motherboard every generation, I’ve just been using Ryzen all these years.

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