Meanwhile, the rest of us wait for a couple of weeks, sometimes months, to lay hands on the recently released material. Which brings me to the recent slam against small PC manufacturers. At the beginning of October AMD released the 1.2 GHz Thunderbird. I received 13 orders that day for a PC with the new chip. I called on October 26th and the news was that AMD postponed the shipments another week.
Time is everything.
No customer wants to get all psyched up for their new ultra-fast PC and then find out it will take forever to get to them. AMD is NOT the only one. When I got the AMD info it just happened to be the last straw. Intel, Creative Labs, Matrox, Guillemot, IBM, etc. One day can kill a small computer manufacturer like myself.