Look, one could argue that the 386SX was a "brain dead" product, and no less than BILL GATES described the 286 as "brain dead".
Whatever, none of these or any other products have ever been "foisted on the "first time" PC buyer", or anyone else for that matter.
Intel offers a broad spectrum of products to the market, where they compete alongside products from AMD, Cyrix and perhaps other vendors. Customers are free to examine and choose any product of those offered, including the ones that you want to think of as "brain dead", and for that matter, to reject them all and buy nothing.
IF a customer buys one of the products which you describe as "brain dead", they did it because the believed (rightly or wrongly, but there is certainly no lack of advice and available information) that it was the product whose characteristics (including price) best met their needs as they perceived them at the time.
No one is holding a gun to anyone's head, and from your comments I can only believe that you either do not (truly) understand, or perhaps understand but do not support the concept of a free market economy. |
