Ok I'm paging through CPU (Computer Power User) magazine (Not a bad read) and notice an ad for the new AMD Athlon 64 FX.
It shows a guy sitting in front of a computer looking very very serious.
( See the ad )Now I have a tendency to pick apart ads on occasion. So I notice that he has a command prompt window open on Windows XP. It looks like he was doing a lot of work on the command line. So the thought crosses my mind "What would someone even do on the command line for Windows XP? I only do very basic stuff at a Windows command prompt because everything else has a nice graphical interface that I've grown used to . . ." So I look closer.
Apparantly the guy in this ad is a big idiot or his kid was messing with his PC because this is what the screen reads if you look close:
C:\ fa
'fa' is not recognized blah blah blah
C:\
C:\
C:\
C:\asdf
'asdf' is not recognized blah blah blah
C:\df
'df' is not recognized blah blah blah
( See close up of screen )It's always fun to find stuff like that. I'll bet AMD's advertising staff must not have realized it would be that clear.
Anyway on another note, how are AMD's latest offerings? I have an Athlon 700 that I'm thinking about replacing in the coming months and I've been pretty happy with it overall. My only complaint is it'll heat up a room like crazy. Do they still do that?