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To: tejek who wrote (143144)	3/8/2002 4:17:06 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 1579906

Pentium 4M was "paper, pixel launch" Growl... stop doing this Intel By Mike Magee, 08/03/2002 10:37:37 BST NO WONDER both Intel customers and hacks were confused when the Pentium 4 mobile was released earlier this week. Just try plugging the press release into a P4M motherboard. According to c't magazine, no manufacturers will release real products into the marketplace until April, so the only people to have real systems appear to be journalists benchmarking the performance of machines. Maybe it's different in the USA - one reader told us there are machines available in CompUSA. The paper launch is a well-established way for PR departments to hype up products, so building up momentum for when machines actually become available. Over the next three weeks or so we shall therefore see reviews of the machines but if you try to buy one it might be a tad more difficult. No wonder system integrators were knocking on the INQ's door earlier this week to say that the Pentium 4M was still under embargo. In between the head bone and the finger bone, some numbskull at INTC decided to cheese off its partners by slipping the leash on an early press release. No doubt we'll be treated to a barrage of press releases towards the end of this month when INTC's customers manage to deliver notebooks on the date they originally thought was the real date, and which appeared as such in every roadmap we saw from last September to March... µ theinquirer.net