BigBull, I caught the tail end of a Bruce Francis piece on CNBC this morning on these benchmark tests of Celeron. He proved himself to be a total incompetent on the subject, likening the chip to a "Chevy" and saying people who buy in this low end ("buying cheap Nissans") aren't concerned with performance so much as price because they aren't planning to enter the Indy 500.
He totally missed the point and came across as an apologist for Intel, even quoting from Intel's pathetic response - yeah, right, the production models will be faster than the test chips. Sheesh - as if Intel can maintain or expand their market share just by churning out this cheap, crappy chip and spinning the story. Pretty soon, the Dells and Gateways are going to get tired of losing market share to Compaq and generic boxes, and they'll be jumping all over the C6+.
He did get to redeem himself slightly. Suzie what's-her-name said something like "the chips are actually faster that what people are using now, right?" And Bruce got to say "Well, actually no, the chip may not be faster than offerings by AMD and Cyrix." No mention of the WinChip, IDTI, or Centaur. |
