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
posted by netrama @ 1:56 AM
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Good words.
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