I actually take notice of how many consumer laptops I see in a walmart / target / best buy are actually running AMD APUs. The big brands might not, but they see bigger numbers on the A6 than a Pentium and feel better about the buy even if the Pentium dominates it.
The trouble is that most computers aren't bought at Best Buy or Walmart, and the ones that are tend to be the low end garbage with no margins for the hardware vendor.
Keeping AMD out of Dell and HP is what kept them out of corporate America. Corporations literally buy PCs by the pallet, and then they pass on the volume discount to employees who want to buy one for home.
> they pass on the volume discount to employees who want to buy one for home
Really? I don't see the use case for ordering a PC this way for the home. When I'm buying a home PC, or recommending one for others, it's either:
(a) A bottom-of-the-barrel PC. As long as it has 1GB of memory and more than one core, you can use it for web browsing, Youtube, email, and word processing. This is what non-techies usually want (but they don't know they want it and may get upsold by good marketing). This is what I want unless I'm planning on running a specific application that requires more.
(b) A powerful PC for gaming. It needs a decent discrete GPU if it's going to play current games. Most office PC's don't have one, unless you work for Pixar.
AFAIK the machines purchased by corporations for general office use are usually middle-of-the-road beasts that cost more than category (a) but don't have the discrete GPU of category (b). I'd be guessing they'd be a waste of money for home use, even after the volume discount.
