Quote Originally Posted by dave_graham View Post
tier 1 review sites? are you kidding me? since when has HP, Dell, Sun, IBM, or any other manufacturer even considered Anandtech, Tech Report or any other pro-sumer site when evaluating a platform for development and integration? got a hint for you....NEVER.

i'm definitely not contesting that AMD marketing completely fscked this launch. i'm contesting people who seem (in the face of evidence to the contrary that I've accurately provided) to assume that these folks have the gospel message for Barcelona...which is patently false.

where have i claimed that AMD is a bunch of "terminal morons...."? you must be confusing me for one of the wide variety of pernicious trolls present in this thread.... i had lunch with a Sr AMD FAE today...you think that if i though he was a moron i'd even entertain that?

wow....they never prepared me for this type of response in my degree program. (yes that's a thinly-veiled joke about my education...)

cheers,

dave
So you lunch with SR AMD people.
You should have all the answers then.
If Anandtech and like sites are not in the loop, why did AMD bother to give them test samples? Especially considering your opinion (that is so easily read between the lines) that their input could only hurt AMD and not influence positively any real server based customers like IBM Dell etc.....? Does AMD have an entire PR department that is so incompetent?
On the other hand IF they did not hand out chips for sites like Anand, they surely knew that those sites would get their hands on them soon and do articles anyways. At least you can admit AMD tried to keep as much control of the situation as possible, that does not look incompetent to me.