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For some time, people have been comparing AMD to Intel and saying "hey, AMD is better". It's like, okay... fine, whatever. I personally don't like AMD so I'm going to keep buying Intel. But I digress... To the point.

Here are some benchmarks for the latest processors. Before anyone tells me that benchmarks lie? Give me a break. They only seem to lie when people don't like the outcome. Anyway... check out the numbers. Intel is faster than AMD at the moment.

But, oh! Ho, ho... suddenly... you can't compare AMD to Intel because they're "apples and oranges". What? Since when? Apparently, the fanboys didn't bother thinking that while AMD was ahead, did they? Now that they're losing, they try to make the comparison pointless. It would have worked for them if they did that before this came out... but, nah. It didn't matter then.

Is AMD better than Intel? Maybe. They seem to whine a lot as a company, though. But that's not the point of this post. (I have experienced AMD processors before... they're nice. I mean... they're processors. Not much can go wrong if they work. I just don't have the money to switch my entire desktop to AMD when I have a bunch of Intel peripherals to use up, first.) But it just seriously ticked me off that all these AMD fanboys turned into a bunch of hypocrits and totally decimated any respect they had in my eyes.

In this week's installment of Sony Says, Phil Harrison claims they didn't copy Nintendo, and that thinking such a thing is, and I quote, "a little stupid". (As if anyone would admit to copying?) In a couple other articles (here and here), he also says that since the PS3 has such power at it's disposal (you know... the Cell processor that's a pain in the butt to code for, and Blu-Ray, of course) that it's essentially a total replacement for the personal computer. They say Linux can be installed on it, as well... and have been saying it for a long time, but I have to wonder... why? They have a special flavor of Linux that is entirely recoded to work on Cell architecture? I doubt it.

Although one good thing has come out of Sony this week... but it still pales in the shadow of the other evils they're spouting. They claim that the rumors about them preventing sale of used games is false. That's good for them, I guess... a little bit. But I wouldn't put it past them to drop information about it, check the reaction, and then make a decision. Yeah... they saw that nobody would buy any games anymore and decided to say "whoops, better not do that after all!" (Just like with the technology they patented that would essentially lock Blu-Ray discs to specific players... aka... no playing your game at your friend's house... they have a patent, but don't plan on using it? Mmhm... When has Sony ever backed down from "Digital Rights Management"?)

It seems that analyists are starting to recommend you sell your Sony stock while the going's good, haha. Apparently it was actually upgraded from a sort of "SELL IMMEDIATELY" status to a plain old sell status, but it's still sweet.

Our action is based on valuation, since the current price of Sony shares is near our 12-month target price of $44. After management's recent fiscal year 2007 (ending March) guidance, we continue to believe that any potential upside in share price would be limited by a lack of visibility in Sony's games division. We are maintaining our fiscal year 2007 (ending March) and fiscal year 2008 earnings per share (EPS) estimates of 72 cents and 78 cents, respectively.

The fanboys are coming out and saying "bashing Sony is getting old guys". Yeah, well... it's time to take your own medicine. I remember the days where fiscal reports were used in an attempt to prove Nintendo's worthlessness. Only this time? The reports actually say that Sony's doing something wrong, tsk tsk. Gee, I wonder what it could be.

(Oh, I'm so incredibly anti-Sony, aren't I...)

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