"the week ending April 24 AMD accounted for 52% of desktop CPU sales,
marking what is believed to be the first time the AMD has outsold Intel in a
retail channel, all without the help of Dell. "
http://arstechnica.com/news/posts/1083689661.html

rms

"rms" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> "the week ending April 24 AMD accounted for 52% of desktop CPU sales,
> marking what is believed to be the first time the AMD has outsold Intel in
a
> retail channel, all without the help of Dell. "
> http://arstechnica.com/news/posts/1083689661.html
>
> rms
>


Yes, Found to be completly wrong by other sources..
The sample rates of this all seems to be where the flaws come in, I think
it's easier to just look at the raw # of processors sold (granted that
number is highly error prone too)

rstlne wrote:
> "rms" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>> "the week ending April 24 AMD accounted for 52% of desktop CPU sales,
>> marking what is believed to be the first time the AMD has outsold
>> Intel in a retail channel, all without the help of Dell. "
>> http://arstechnica.com/news/posts/1083689661.html
>
> Yes, Found to be completly wrong by other sources..
> The sample rates of this all seems to be where the flaws come in, I
> think it's easier to just look at the raw # of processors sold
> (granted that number is highly error prone too)

I think they mentioned that in the overall PC market that same week, Intel
had 61%, and AMD had 38%. Still pretty respectable, even if it was just for
one week.

Yousuf Khan