AMD: You'll be pleasantly surprised

[Donnie27]

I really hope AMD surprises us The HD-4870 was a great card. It even took over place #1 from the 6800 GT as the graphic card I liked the most.



That would mean Apple need to use AMD's processors as well. Seeing most of Apple's products use mobile chips this would be a dumb choice. AMD imho is not an option for mobile devices.

Plus I don't think AMD could be as good as a partner as Intel is. Me thinks Intel gives Apple more than one helping hand... Remember the C2Ds with the small package that Apple used for their MacBook Air? (I don't think Intel solely did this for Apple, but it surely shows that Apple has some weight on Intel's decisions.) Do you think AMD would or even could have done something like that?

Yes, it would be very dumb and that's NOT what I or we were talking about. We were talking about AMD Motherboards with integrated AMD Graphics. Remember, ATI was supplying Intel with both.

Second point. What Really would be dumb, counter productive, bad business and etc.. is for AMD to miss out on shipping AMD platforms that supported Intel Processors if they were asked. So what they lost out on the processors and JUST Intel compat limited AMD platforms for Apple is better than NOTHING or just video cards. NO, I don't think Apple or Intel sees AMD (Processors) as a threat any time soon.