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Alienware Really Doesn’t Want You to Buy an AMD Ryzen PC – ExtremeTech
Just because Alienware sells Ryzen systems doesn’t mean the company wants you to buy one. All objective evidence suggests it would rather you didn’t.
Once upon a time (specifically, the early 2000s), certain manufacturers and OEMs were so terrified of what Intel might do to them if they sold AMD products, they went to ridiculous lengths to hide the fact that they did so. Motherboard manufacturers shipped boards without their own logos, in unadorned white boxes. System vendors would format their product lists for 1024×768 at a time when 800×600 was the norm. Set the page to 800×600, and the AMD products would either be shoved below and require…
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