"Carlo Razzeto" wrote:

We're neither talking about an item with a £8000 price difference (is
your pound key broken?) or one which has an value in it's own right;
it's simply a component of the overall system.

J/K supports AMD a little too much.

I was starting the feel that vibe. ;-)

He can't grasp the idea that there are
situations where a P4 may be preferable to any AMD chip. So I'd stop arguing
if I were you it's not worth it. One thing to note.

Which was kinda my point. I'm not going to get drawn into which is
better because it'd be purely my opinion, just as JK's preference to
AMD is his. Both have their merits and people who buy either have
their reasons for doing so. I can't see why some people feel so
strongly about the whole thing or, come to think of it the whole
MCIBTYC thing; be it Intel vs AMD, ATI vs Nvidia, PC vs Mac,
self-build vs branded etc.

The world is so much more colourful and stimulating due to diversity
and choice. I don't see why people can't accept there are other
options and feel the need to suppress and coerce people into acting
the same way they do, whether it be CPUs, cars, politics, race,
sexuality, religion or whatever else it is that rocks your world.

I didn't follow the
thread very closely so if there's a reason why some one should assume we're
talking about British currancy I'll shut up. But news groups are indeed
international. Unfortunatly I"m sure J/K lives some where in the U.S. like
me and perhaps he is assuming we're talking about U.S. currancy. So I'm sure
his pound key isn't broken, perhaps he just didn't know he should be using
it.

The OP was cross-posted into a number of groups, including
uk.comp.homebuilt so 'Franklin' is either in the UK, in which case any
discussion of price differences in US$ would be irrelevant to him or,
alternatively, he's just off-topic.

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