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Don't sweat, it's irrelvant anyway

Technically minded people can tell the difference anyway.
The 'Joe Average' who hasn't a clue doesn't care and will use
whatever the salesman sells him.

The whole "Intel inside" thing was a way for Intel to market
their brand, so that consumers were aware that there was an
Intel chip inside their Dell or HP or whatever PC. Intel don't
make PCs, so they are beholden to the OEMs to help them
market their product.

I'm not particularly enamored of Intel, they are years behind
the times in some ways but leading the pack in others. E.g
"...including the option for a built-in wireless access
point..." - Macs have been doing this for nearly 5 years.

A good example is Intel's extremely deep pipelines that
cause nearly as many performance issues as they solve,
needing technologies like hyper-threading to make them
work. So Intel market hyper-threading like some amazing
new technology that is way above the rest, when in fact
others like AMD and PowerPC don't need it as much because
of their much shorter pipelines.

Anyhow, anything that delivers better, simpler to use PCs
has got to be a step in the right direction. I wonder when
Apple will start delivering Intel-based products...

Posted by: Fred Fredrickson   Posted on: 06/05/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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