On again, off again
There are signs that Dell's relationship with AMD may be warming up after Dell launched, and is actively promoting, a new range of desktop PCs containing AMD CPUs.
Back in February 2008 we wrote that Dell was scaling down its AMD consumer offering and, a year and a half later, it seems to have decided to reverse that decision.
Speaking to statesman.com, John Terwilliger, Dell's director of consumer desktops, said: "AMD technology helps us deliver a great multimedia experience at a great price."
Meanwhile, AMD's desktop chief Bob Grimm was obviously pleased with the development. "It is AMD showing up back in force in the meat of the (Dell) desktop line," he said. "It was an all-Intel SKU for a while, and now it is an all-AMD SKU."
The Inspiron 546 is available on the US site at a starting price of $269, for a base unit containing a 2.3 GHz Sempron LE-1300 processor, and in a variety of colours.
Once more we seem to be getting ripped off over here, however, with the same SKU costing £279 ($460), and available in whatever colour you want, so long as it's black.
