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November 9, 2005 at 12:32 pm #2180221

Good News / Bad News (and something that makes you go..”HUH?”)

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by mickster269 · about 16 years, 6 months ago

Ran across this link today:

http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2005/11/09/dell_athlon_amd/

Basically, Dell is saying – “Yes, we sell Athalon CPU’s. Just the CPU’s, though. No machines USING the CPU’s. We only use Intel Motherboards.”

Lawyers. Gotta love ’em, since we can’t shoot them.

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- November 10, 2005 at 8:16 am #3118273
  
  What a joke
  
  by antuck · about 16 years, 6 months ago
  
  In reply to Good News / Bad News (and something that makes you go..”HUH?”)
  
  This has to be something thought up by the lawyers.
  
  Seriously, who would go to Dell just to buy an AMD chip? Especially since Dell does not put the AMD chips in thier own computers.
  
  You just have to hope the Judge see’s through this.
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