Shall i tell you why i was upset?
Im not upset AMD hasnt performed to what they said.. honestly, most of us already saw this coming.
Personally performance or the cpu itself isnt what pissed me off in general.
What pissed me off?
1. AMD Marketing... straight up, i hope everyone who drew those silly slides comparing a 250 dollar AMD cpu to a intel 1000 dollar CPU only on the pure aspect of price, needs to get fired.
2. After comparing it via price... then NOT putting it in the benchmarks so the public couldnt see how badly the 1000 dollar intel processor would slaughter bulldozer to hide that fact.
3. Telling all the reputable reviewers who had access to the cpu, that their results were WRONG, when final reviews point to be true.
4. Then trying to think of every last CORNER to hide Bulldozer behind covers so no one could validate anything.
This is why i am personally pissed off.
If AMD took a more professional route, and not some stupid child like comparison, i wouldn't of been so upset.
As i said, a lot of us already knew Bulldozer could not beat Sandy... and they didnt need to beat sandy to get our approval.
What they needed was a value cpu, which they would not try to tier up with cpu's that dont belong in its niche, and try to LIE about it saying its a better cpu.
This is about the nutshell why i am so pissed at AMD.
Bulldozer could of been handled much better... less BS slides and more accurate ones trying to put the cpu in where it actually belongs.
But because of all the lies.. no one has a clue still where this cpu belongs... and now the people who would even really consider the cpu have given up because AMD BS''d about the proper tier this cpu should be at.
AMD tried to get the wrong niche.. and now there paying for it.. its simple as that.
Yeah, they did do a lot of donkey BS, didn't they.
But is it really fair to blame marketing? Its not like they woke up every morning, put on their evil grin and jollied off to work happy as a lark to create a snow-job campaign to cover for the fact that the engineering team spent 4 yrs, under the direction of management, recreating something that was vilified for nearly the past 8 yrs and counting.
Imagine you are paying your mortgage, coming home to wife and kids every day, your daughter wants to play soccer, the wife says the car check engine light is coming on, the dog just crapped in the corner of your den (again), and if you want to keep your job to pay your mortgage next month you had better come up with something quick to kinda blur over the raw edges of bulldozer.
Life is messy, its not all about pure demons and liars. These are real people just like you and me, thrust into a situation in their jobs that just sucks, they just want Friday to come like the rest of us, they want their job to exist next year, and they have literally no control over what the design team has cooked up these past 4 yrs. Their job is to package it and sell it as best they can.
We all bitch and moan that AMD has no marketing presence, then they get handed a turd and told to sell it, then we all bitch and moan that they are trying to sell us a turd.