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Charlie Demerjian
Apr 14, 2022

AMD’s Ryzen 5800X3D is too flawed for consumer use

What works in server doesn’t for consumer

Today AMD releases their long awaited consumer 3D V-Cache CPU called the Ryzen 5800X3D and it is not as good as expected.
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Charlie Demerjian
Oct 2, 2012

A year on, Ultrabooks are a worse disaster than most expected

Intel’s failure was predictable, we predicted it

A year after SemiAccurate called Intel’s moronic Ultrabook spec “Shiny things for the stupid”, the world is coming around to our point of view.
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Charlie Demerjian
Nov 28, 2011

AMD launches memory line in the worst way possible

Bad ideas wrapped in insulting marketing for zero upside

AMD marketing has been dropping the ball rather painfully of late, and with the re-launch of their memory, they did it again.
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Charlie Demerjian
Oct 20, 2011

Ultrabooks – Shiny things for the stupid

Part 2: Still not a Macbook, but less functional than you might think

Moving on to the CPU, there is one big dark secret that Intel is using to con the press into thinking the CPU and GPU power of the Ultrabooks are adequate.
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Charlie Demerjian
Oct 20, 2011

Hands on with the Acer and Asus Ultrabooks

Part 1: Nice execution on a fatally flawed concept

You know a product is a dog when it is available widely in stores long before reviewers get sent some.
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