How is the latest poll possible?

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How Can you people justify results of the winner in the current poll, Rambus vs. DDR: 1 Year later? By buying a board using RDRAM, you're supporting Rambus, a company which is pure evil! Have you no brand loyalty? I'm appaulled that you tekkies would support such a company freely.

 

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I despise RAMBUS as much as anyone else.... but I'll sacrifice for performance.
If a DDR P4 set up cost equivalently to an I850 P4 setup I would be buying the I850 + RDRAM.

Better performance for equivalent cash outlay.

Brand loyalty is foolish. I am not going to sacrifice my money to get something that is inferior to another solution. And right now I850 is the superior option.
I have companies I like, I have companies I favor. I have companies I dislike.
But I will not knowingly purchase an inferior solution just because I dislike the company, I do not have enough money to throw around doing that. I want the best I can get for my money.

I buy whatever offers the pbest price/performance ratio.

And in the question it specifies a hypothetical situation in which an RDRAM + I850 + P4 cost no more then DDR + P4X266 + P4, in such a situation I would buy Rambus because they offer the better price/performance.