That darn Intel jingle...

[Philip Pemberton]

In message <436AA126.3010107 at yahoo.co.uk>
          Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> - where there's likely not a lot to choose between the two on average 
> when all factors are taken into account - I find it interesting that I'd 
> go for the AMD guys on the grounds that they have the less-irritating 
> advertising.

Hm, I've never seen an AMD advert on TV. Or in any other form of mainstream
media for that matter.
I have, however, read a lot of comparative reviews that put the Pentium 4
against the AthlonXP and Athlon64, and the AMD chips tend to do better (in
clockspeed-for-clockspeed tests). Not to mention the cost factor.

> I guess it's only recently (relatively) that computer-related ads have 
> been commonplace on mainstream TV though. In the olden days they would 
> have been magazine ads and much easier to skip over if at all annoying!

I stopped reading PC magazines over a year ago. I switched my PCPlus
subscription for a Circuit Cellar sub, saved £35 a year and haven't looked
back.
£5.95 an issue is a really crap deal, especially when 90% of the content is
advertising. Circuit Cellar is similar, but seeing as it's only $15 (IIRC) a
year, I'll put up with the adverts. After all, that's what the "Next Page"
button in Acrobat Reader is for :)

Later.
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