AMD conqueres last bastion of Dell's product portfolio.
AMD conqueres last bastion of Dell's product portfolio.
Dell has launched its first desktop computer based on AMD processors.
The new AMD Athlon and Ahtlon X2 powered Optiplex 740 targets enterprises. It marks a next step in the system maker's transition to AMD powered systems. Dell in the past summer unveiled an AMD Opteron server and last week started shipping a laptop powered by chips from the Intel competitor.
Dell on its website touted the Optiplex 740's flexibility and its ability to meet diverse demands that users might have. The systems for instance are capable of running Windows Vista Premium and feature four memory slots. The Dell website in different places claims that the new system will support either 4Gb or 8Gb or memory. The latter figure would only benefit the 64-bit version of Windows Vista.
Dell is the last major hardware vendor to adopt AMD processors. The company however won't create AMD-based versions of each of its servers, stressed Franco. Instead the computer maker will use the chip where it sees a benefit.
The company in the past has said that it will consider alternative architectures and components based on customer demand. The system build however doesn’t plan to create Intel and AMD version of each of their products.