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by throwawaytolk 1988 days ago
It always blows me away to see so much brand loyalty about cpus.

I really couldn't care less what architecture my chips are, or who fabricates them. All I care about is price and performance.

I write application software, the underlying hardware is pretty irrelevant to me and most of my peers too.

I think that as we lost national sources of pride and community structures at a local level, people transferred their loyalties to brands. LETS RISE ABOVE!

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> I think that as we lost national sources of pride and community structures at a local level, people transferred their loyalties to brands. LETS RISE ABOVE!

Fully agree. This is a phenomenon that goes beyond tech.

Personally I have always rooted for AMD as the underdog and because Intel was the Goliath that held back CPU performance so it could squeeze more dollars out of consumers.

I haven't really seen any brand loyalty here so far.