Is Microsoft Vista the Last OS to be shipped on a 'Disk' ??
As I write this post , Microsoft Vista Home Premium (Upgrade) is being sold on ebay for $88.00 shipped. Most of the Laptop and Desktop vendors are including Vista OEM shipped in their products with out any noticeable markup in price. This leads me to believe that , even if MS didn't release Vista , it would still be able to sell XP Variants and still make the same money. So much for the time and money spent on making Vista. As an average PC user , my experience remains unchanged since around the time Windows 95 came. Only that the frequency of blue screens of death and system crashes have decreased. It took me the same time to send an email back in 1997 as in 2007. As technology matures , and levels out , more players show up in the scene and innovate the way things are done.
Alright Google , show us your cards ....
Intel's Core 2 Extreme QX6800 a big Joke.
Common' man get real here $1200 just for a processor. You are getting unbeatable deals for below $300 for an above average performing system. Now what kind of idiot will buy the QX6800. I admit there are lots of folks here in the US of A with loose cash. But according to Eric Kim - this Processor is meant for gamers for some vaporware games said to take advantage of the 4 processing units and also for some non-existent multithreaded media edition software. With the impending launch of the Barcelona/K10 from AMD, only fools will put $1200 just or a CPU. Now, all this Intel knows pretty well, it is just that they are trying to minimize the big blow of doom they will get when the K10 comes out.
Labels: Quad Core QX 6800 K10 Barcelona
Latest scam from Intel : "Centrino Pro "
It is funny how companies like Intel abuse the meaning of the word 'technology' in descriptions like "Intel Centrino Pro processor technology" . I see this clearly as another way for Intel to scam and extract more money from the customers and the channel. To get to the back ground of the issue , lets take a back step and see what was Centrino all about. Intel takes the Pentium-3 (that was sold as PIII-M) Processor during the P4 -3Ghz days , and start clocking it at 900MHz to decrease power consumption. They then add their crappy wireless radio to it and behold , what do we have ?? "Centrino mobile technology " . There was nothing technology for this technology , since superior IEEE 802.11b (Wi-Fi) or wireless Internet was pretty much available commonly during that time from several vendors - Broadcom , Atheros etc etc. In Centrino pro , Intel puts a regular (soon to be obselete) Core 2 Processor and sing the song of "remote management".
If you see this logo - run for your life !!!
I clearly do not think , Remote management is the purview of the processor maker. I think it should up to the big vendors like DELL or HP or Lenovo to have a software and process in place to do all the remote stuff and be responsible for maintaining and managing desktop and notebook clients. The proprietary technology soon to be pushed with Centrino Pro will in fact leave clients with no option to move away from it , if they want to and is another attempt by the monopoly giant to leverage its marketing and fool people.Labels: Intel Centrino Pro Mobile Technology
Is DELL going backwards in Technology ??
Here is a cover picture from the latest Dell Catalog for Mar-April 2007. Notice the 'Pentium' Logo laptop that Dell is trying to sell. The last time Dell pushed Pentium chips this aggressively was perhaps 2 years back. Now what does Dell want you to do ? Buy another Pentium Laptop ?? Or could it be that Mikey's god fathers (read 'Paul') asked him to push their crappy inventory onto some Dell Laptops.
As I analyze this further , I realize that the Intel logo doesn't matter anymore. If Dell sells a laptop with no processor logo tomorrow , folks would still by it. The processor in the mobile space has been reduced to some thing that is taken for granted. Why should I care if it is Intel or AMD underneath. Would I care who made the USB host chip ?? If a vendor (Dell in this case) chooses a particular processor for a laptop, I would leave it to their good judgement to find a suitable one. It is extremely hard to believe that brands like SONY and Toshiba have succumbed to the Intel marketing paybacks, and are happy to display the Intel logo. Folks like SONY forget that , people buy SONY just because of the 4 letters ,"SONY" , not because of any crappy Intel logo. Fine if they decide to put the logo of the processor maker , let these laptop makers also display the logos of the other chips that go indside - Wireless, Bluetooth, USB, PCMCIA , DSPs,LCD controller, Hard Drive, DVD Drive chips etc.
Labels: Dell SONY Toshiba Intel AMD Laptop Technology
