Comments on: Why $100 computers are on the way

Advanced Micro Devices CEO Hector Ruiz talks about trends in chip technology and fighting the good fight against Intel.

[pcLoadLetter]

It is possible IF

people can get coaxed away from the unsecure, bloated POS known as the windows operating system. With windows, double or triple that $100 price tag.

Funny how hardware get faster and more powerful, yet cheaper and windows get buggier, more bloated, slower and more expensive over time.

[catchall]

Ya right

Double or triple? What are you talking about? You can get new desktops for $300 from Dell, so your telling me that now, at this time, hardware is free and the cost of that low end Dell is just the Window?s OS?

No, no. Large manufacturers don?t pay anywhere near that, so neither will the end user. I?ve heard guesses of $40 a license for big shops, but have seen nothing to back that up.

But you are partially correct. MS will have to lower the cost of the OS if it is to be a part of the $100 PC. And I think they can do it, hoping to sell services and add-ons down the road.

[Kevin Baron]

AMD

It's sad that AMD has the fastest chips yet the have the lowest market share. Dell should play ball and jump on board. The fact is that there are many people out there who want a Dell/AMD PC. Dell is considered(because it is),the top dog in the PC industry. If they backed AMD the world would follow. I dont know anyone who is a Intel loyalist. I do however know many AMD loyalists.

[highlander2000]

Uh

There are plenty of loyalists for anyone and anything, methinks. I know people who would never buy an AMD computer if they didn't have to because they feel AMD's low market share is an obvious sign of total inferiority.

AMD does make good advancements in chip architecture, like the jump to Athlon and then Athlon XP and then Athlon 64. I think they really need to pump up now in the area of multicore chipmaking.

[bammike]

Here's one!!!

I am a computer tech, and an Intel loyalist. I come across nothing but problems with the cheap AMD processors and the boards they are installed on. Particularly when I see a K6-2 processor on a machine, I want to flee. It is a shame this countries manufacturers try to aim for cheapest with no regard for quality. Yes, the word is QUALITY. The old addage that you get what you pay for does not always apply, but in most cases it does. This is one of them.

Mike

[hatandglasses13]

This is horrible

Great, $100 PC's so that people who don't know how to use
computers buy them incredibly cheap and then they don't work
for anything other than solitaire on a good day.

What is wrong with the PC industry? Instead of making
computers that work, let's undercut prices so everyone hates
technology.

Brilliant.

Software, Baby!

We need smarter programmers and better compilers. End of story.

Many things in our society undermines and punishes software purists.

Bottom of the pyramid

If you can sell a PC/network appliance at $100, you'll reach a market of a billion. Also, you'll face little competition from those that currently dominates western hemisphere deskptops and homes.

[momule]

absolutely

most folk that I know that are computer deprived are only so because the cost is that of a new fridge. Give them a 100 dollar device that does what most people do: internet browsing, email and simple word docs, and you'd sell a million the first month.