I seems to me that just from a marketing perspective, this Celeron
chip is a real bad idea for Intel. They have spent alot of time and
money developing a reputation for providing the fastest, high quality
chips, and to suddenly attempt to hoodwink the public with this piece of garbage makes no sense. All I know is that if I went into a store
and they tried to sell me one of these systems, that store would never
get my business again.
How can this chip be the price/performance leader when it is clearly outperformed by Pentium MMX, as well as Cyrix and AMD offerings already filling these sub-$1000 PC's. Exactly how much cheaper will it be? A few bucks?
I have some faith, though, that the modern computer buying public is
too smart to en-mass buy into the Celeron. As long as shady sellers
don't intentionally hide the information about this chip, the public
will not fall for this charade. I sure hope Intel quickly releases
a new version with sufficient cache, since I think this whole affair
sets a very poor example for the X86 computer industry.
It reminds me of the early days of the 386, where some of the chips
could not reliably run 32 bit instructions, but were sold anyway.
Unscrupulous clone vendors sold these as fully functional 386's,
and most users did not find out until they actually used 32 bit
software. A place right by me in San Diego (at the time) did this,
and eventually went under, but they made alot of money for a while. |
