I personally think that anyone buying Intel CPU's are nuts... You pay at least 40% more usually, and for office apps, they are marginally slower then the much cheaper AMD..
Of course your upside is that you will get a bit faster framerate running Quake3 with the Intel, but since both are totally playable and most of the work is getting shifted to the GPU (graphics card) nowdays.. the difference is less and less. Go with AMD to save money ahead of any other reason, but since you mention it, Intel have shown themselves to be very M$ friendly.. much more so then AMD I think. I will never buy another intel machine.. I don't believe in paying more just for the name.. I want the job done as cheaply as possible.. As for the SCO thing, to hell with them, if you didn't see a license agreement with non GPL terms in it.. you are fine.. and since unitedlinux had all sorts of stipulations in it, I suspect SCO would have been shot down had they tried to introduce anything non GPl into their license. rgds Franki >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Thinker >Sent: Monday, 11 August 2003 2:47 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: [newbie] OT--General Linux Questions > > >I know this is a little off topic, but I was hoping to hear as many >opinions on these questions as possible. > > >1. After reading this article ... >http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/200143628 >0_linuxgroup08.html > >I am left wondering; where does Intel stand in the debate? Are they >officially on the M$ side of things are are they attempting to play >neutral in all of this. I have never used an AMD processor and I wasn't >really planning on it, but if Intel is out to hurt Open Source, I will >have to change my stance. > >2. After reading this article ... >http://www.vnunet.com/News/1142837 > >I am wondering, what about UnitedLinux? Isn't SCO part of an ongoing pro >Linux project with SuSE and others? Does SCO expect me to pay $699 for a >license for software they shipped me under the pretense that it was >'free'? > >Honestly, I went to United Linux about 2 months ago and signed up for >the shipment of the free software discs. If I install them, and then pay >the $699 can I not sue them for fraud? > > >Just a few questions from a newbie trying to make sense out of all this >posturing. > > >Thanks for your time. > >-=Thinker > > >
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