• @grue@lemmy.world
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    9210 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.)

    • @SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      10 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 pound sand.

    • @Damage@slrpnk.net
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      1310 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.

    • Final Remix
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      10 months ago

      I’ve had nothing but issues with some computers, laptops, etc… 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.

    • @vxx@lemmy.world
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      10 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 and nothing to draw any conclusion from.

    • nek0d3r
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      110 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.