Sunday, April 08, 2007

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.

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posted by netrama @ 7:21 PM

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At 2:23 PM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

It would help your argument, which has merit, tremendously if you would refrain from oversimplification and hyperbole. I agree that the remote management software is hooey, but your description of the genesis of the Pentium M is silly.

 

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