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Originally Posted by Tristan Lall
As for Office, don't pay for it now, if you can afford to wait until the next version (creatively code-named "Office 12"), which ought to be out some time next year. There's a complete user-interface re-work underway, and from what I've seen of it, it actually looks rather good.
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Or, you could just skip paying altogether with openoffice.org.
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Originally Posted by JoeXIII'007
Finally, I believe the reason why the salesperson may have been telling you that the AMDs were better is because Intel recently faced lawsuit from AMD because of some unlawful practice. I think it was unfair advertising, monopolizing, or something to the effect where AMD was just pushed out of view of potential buyers.
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It was an antitrust issue. IIRC, the gist of it was Intel "encouraging" retailers to not stock computers with AMD processors.
Anyhow, my experience with AMD vs. Intel is that AMD is a bit more expensive, but AMD also performs better. Though if you're on a budget, a 3GHz P4 could be right up your alley.