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Dell dumps AMD from web site
DELL APPEARS TO have dumped AMD unceremoniously from it's web site, relegating them to the retail ghetto. This is not good for AMD, not good at all.
Given AMD's woeful performance of late, it is hard to argue that Dell should prioritise AMD above Intel, but this seems a little harsh. In any case, as you can see in the pic below, and read for yourself here, there is no more AMD on Dell.com.
It is going to be hard to finesse this point
We don't put this down to anything more than the Barcelona fiasco, it is a year or so late, about 25 per cent down on speed, and slipping more and more each week. After a while, something has to give, and that first something appears to be Dell.
Dell is still offering some AMD-powered kit on its Euro website, but for how long we wonder? µ
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AMD systems certainly are available to put into your shopping cart at DELL's website (both US and Europe) - I have just checked. The exciting thing for AMD is that ADDITIONALLY the website actively promotes their availability at the 5 big retailer chain stores.
I used to always choose AMD over Intel products even when they performed a little less, but: hey - I won't pay the same price for 15-25% less performance!

I really hope they are recovering, until then they have to rely on companies like Dell to cut a deal with people who wouldn't know better - like the people buying their computers at Tesco, Walmart or Real.

...on the other hand: for the average gamer it doesn't matter if they use AMD or Intel - the video card, motherboard chipset and memory are the biggest shop stoppers there and you need to pump a lot more money down those pipes than for your CPU!
still alot of turion processors available at Dell.com
AMD stuff can still be bought from Dell:

http://www.dell.com/content/products/category.aspx/optix?c=us&cs=04&l=en&s=bsd

Maybe not the home Dimensions. I don't know, I'd never buy one of those. The Optiplexes don't come with as much software crap.
Right under that notice, Dell has laptops listed with Turion CPUs. So they just don't carry desktop CPUs?

Cheers,
John
All the AMD servers still seem to be available... maybe their just dumping some of the older home products?
...Jerry Sanders thinks of AMD's decline. I'm sure he would have something "colorful" to say.
If you search for an Energy Star PC, you see only the AMD Inspiron 531 series.
However, this may be a temporary situation, as AMD will be transitioning to the Phenom processors.
What a nonsence

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Rubbish article once again.

Charlie Demerjian is the WORST author ever, his internet must be very crap since he's always seeing things no-one else is seeing.
You can buy a latitude, a vostro, an optiplex, and 5 different poweredge servers... All AMD powered! Sorry Charlie , but am I missing something?
What gives?
They are still selling AMD processors to business. It is said that Dell makes 80% of its sales to business.

http://www.dell.com/content/products/category.aspx/optix?c=us&cs=04&l=en&s=bsd
All the AMD servers seem to be available because the internet runs on Opteron.
Charlie, can’t you remember when you said AMD was going to pound INTC into the pavement with these BULLSHIT E5XX class machines? Man, we even did the calculations on companies buying these at bulk, thereby, saving millions!

BLAAAA! Wrong again! I said it then, I’ll say it now, not even some poor pent up, nine to fiver, locked up in some isolated cubicle (I recall you sitting in one, commenting how terrible they were!) wants to live with some hideous, grey, under pumped, dog of e-machine. 

What you failed to realize back then is corporations need to spend additional money due to Capital Improvement, Tax considerations, further, they just might really care about the people that work for them. (Remember your report when you were sitting your ugly ass in one of Intel’s cubicles last year?) 

So much for the brilliant sweetheart AMD/DELL deal that made DELL a litigation non combatant, made AMD screwed the channel, and ultimately, killed AMD’s margins.

Now they’re in the RETAIL GHETTO? That’s the crap they’re selling the American public because they CAN’T sell it to Corporate America, or the rest of the “on line” world. 


DO YOU GET IT, NOW?

SPARKS 
Dell's move caused a stir online that the company tried to tamp down. A spokesman, David Frink, called the development — which Dell disclosed to consumers on the company's Web site — "not even all that interesting."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23076019/
Has anyone thought that Dell may have preanounced what they are planning to do? If they are planning to get rid of AMD products, it will take time to change their catalogues etc.
Also, they will need to keep AMD parts for some time to support existing AMD systems which have been previously sold...