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Dell AMD Survey
by Maarten Goldstein, Jun 28, 2001 10:41am PDTDell considering add AMD powered PCs? You might think so after seeing this survey. Dell is asking which processors you would consider when buying or building a new PC, and also why. There's also a section where you are asked to compare AMD and Intel processors. Dell has so far been one of the few PC manufacturers without a line of AMD powered PCs. Thanks Optimus Prime. Update: According to AMD Zone, this survey isn't exactly fair thanks to some HTML errors.
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the amd athlon4 has more efficeint architechture than the pentium4 since the athlon4 1.2G competes with the p4 1.7G despite its considerably lower Ghz
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-The SAMe
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Chris -
You're not going to believe this one.
On Dell's survey, the radio buttons are screwed up for Questions 2 and 3.
You can only select one button ACROSS THE TWO QUESTIONS! So, if question 2
you say you most prefer the Athlon, and question 3 you say you least prefer
the Pentium 4, and you answer in that order, than only Pentium 4 will be
registered in the question. Moreover:
That's question 2:
"If you were purchasing a new personal computer for your household today,
which one of the following processors would you MOST prefer and why? (Please
select one)"
And this is Question 3:
"If you were purchasing a new personal computer for your household today,
which one of the following processors would you LEAST prefer and why?
(Please select one)"
Note my browser, IE5, will only give you one radio button for each NAME
attribute. Since both most and least have the same NAME="most_prefer",
despite one question being most and one least, that only the second one will
be recorded in the system!!!
Moreover, look at the 11-point divvy:
Again, both boxes have the same NAME, so only one is being sent, and THERE
IS NO W3C STANDARD WAY TO DIFFERENTIATE BETWEEN THE TWO IN THIS FORM, IT IS
CONSIDERED MALFORMED. THE BROWSER CAN SEND WHATEVER IT WANTS, OR BOTH, IN
ANY ORDER.
I guess you're right. Dell is a bunch of ****-ups. Or a bunch of people
who are trying to rig the **** out of a survey.
>:-#
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Steven B. Lewis
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Fix the story please!
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http://www.fortune.com/indexw.jhtml;jsessionid=YXWMI5Y2ICBM0QAMEHTSFFKABQQ4KIV2?channel=artcol.jhtml&doc_id=203141&page=1&_DARGS=%2Fartcol.jhtml.3_A&_DAV=artcol.jhtml
"A correctly formatted survey that doesn't engage in favoritism by buggy design."
I have a Dell 5000e laptop and I love the thing. It came with a 15.5 inch screen. Of course that bumbed my roommate out, he dosen't own his (work supplied) and its only got a 14 inch screen. Ha. I love the way my screen overlaps the base.
hax0red
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/2/20056.html
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I doubt it though Dell = Intel's personal bitch
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an amd is just more for the money.
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Yes, even Sony; they used a K6-2 in their lowest-end laptop.