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apoppin
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Post subject: Re: AMD to Drop Support for Pre-HD 5000 GPUs  Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2012 2:17 pm |
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So the first part is not so true about AMD?  Given a choice, i would never buy a Samsung phone (unless i plan to upgrade every year) -- and the same thing applies to any company that doesn't fully support their products compared to their competition.
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Googoo24
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Post subject: Re: AMD to Drop Support for Pre-HD 5000 GPUs Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2012 3:15 pm |
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apoppin wrote: It says to me that AMD is broke
I kinda agree with Gstanford, I think they're just trying coerce people into buying newer products. Given their current behavior, it wouldn't surprise me.
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apoppin
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Post subject: Re: AMD to Drop Support for Pre-HD 5000 GPUs Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2012 4:46 pm |
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Don't you think that it takes a lot of money to keep a small team on hand - paying their salaries year after year just to upgrade "old" HW?
AMD is thinking like a corporation - "aggressor" - not as they used to act, for "the community"
- AMD is changing. i really do see this as a cost cutting measure but can turn out to be really expensive for them in any long run.
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Googoo24
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Post subject: Re: AMD to Drop Support for Pre-HD 5000 GPUs Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2012 7:20 pm |
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True, but AMD was able to do it in the past, I'm not sure why suddenly they couldn't afford to do so. Sounds like a new strategy to maximize profits. Furthermore, they foresee growth in the upcoming quarter thanks to Trinity.
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apoppin
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Post subject: Re: AMD to Drop Support for Pre-HD 5000 GPUs Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2012 8:06 pm |
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If you cut your advertising, fire ten percent of your workforce and drop support prematurely for products. they should turn a profit. Frankly it still looks to me like AMD is looking for a buyer And AMD never dropped support for any video products before . . . ATI did 
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Googoo24
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Post subject: Re: AMD to Drop Support for Pre-HD 5000 GPUs Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2012 9:10 pm |
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apoppin wrote: And AMD never dropped support for any video products before . . . ATI did LOL. I meant paying for drivers/product updates. Even when they bought ATI and were in substantial debt, they still managed to maintain decent drivers. apoppin wrote:
Frankly it still looks to me like AMD is looking for a buyer
Perhaps, I'll wait to see how they react after Trinity. Whether it's an overwhelming success and all that.
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apoppin
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Post subject: Re: AMD to Drop Support for Pre-HD 5000 GPUs Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2012 9:19 pm |
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AMD has changed their focus to APU from GPU last year
- their No1 team is not working on GPUs and it shows.
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grstanford
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Post subject: Re: AMD to Drop Support for Pre-HD 5000 GPUs Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2012 10:18 pm |
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apoppin wrote: If you cut your advertising, fire ten percent of your workforce and drop support prematurely for products. they should turn a profit. Frankly it still looks to me like AMD is looking for a buyer And AMD never dropped support for any video products before . . . ATI did Why differentiate between AMD and ATi now when you have been quick to lecture me that they are the one and the same the past few years?
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apoppin
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Post subject: Re: AMD to Drop Support for Pre-HD 5000 GPUs Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2012 10:24 pm |
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Because at the time that they dropped support for x800 it was ATi, not AMD.
- unless i am mistaken about the timing
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grstanford
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Post subject: Re: AMD to Drop Support for Pre-HD 5000 GPUs Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2012 10:37 pm |
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what about x1800 and x19xx? Given the x19xx at least was a current product when AMD took over, and I'm sure that r5xx only gets legacy support now (if that).
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This is such total Horse-S**t!
"At NVIDIA we know that all shredders are green." --Jensen Huang
Adam knew he should have bought a PC, but Eve fell for the marketing hype.
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