Comments on: 'Tis finally the season for Intel's Core 2 Duo

Without a new operating system from Microsoft, the performance delivered by the new chip could be the selling point for PCs this holiday season.

[abc123]

Conroe without Vista - happy accident?

Conroe's less-than-stellar 64 bit performance will get a bit of a breather while MS gets their Vista act together...

[NWLB]

Still waiting until '08.

Oddly I think I won't get a new system until '08 now. I had considered a new system in '07, but not wanting to touch Vista until half of features (bugs) are fixed, and knowing AMD will have a response to Duo (and or Quad Cores,) leaves me feeling good about my three year old 2.5 GHz P4. Frankly it seems to be more about the video cards anyway.

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[john55440]

Waiting Until...

I'm waiting until my 2002 computer dies, or until Vista has been out for at least 6 months, whichever comes first.

I suspect that early adopters of Vista will be in for a bumpy ride.

[fred dunn]

I don't think Conroe will drive christmas sales...

Two things will drive Christmas sales:
1. Price
2. New OS (required for new apps)

Neither of which will include Conroe (core duo) desktops this Christmas. What will be hot this Christmas is cheap laptops and inexpensive dual core desktops with XP.
Core duo is a wonderful processor series and I am glad to see Intel back on track but without a compelling requirement for it price will win every time.

FD

[libertyforall1776]

Just get a Mac w/it!

Just get a Mac w/it!

Windows is so klunky, why not use Mac OS X? It's SO much more
media friendly and elegant... Windows feels like a toy OS...

*NM*

[technewsjunkie]

Apple could capitalize on this. No mention in article.

I'm sorry, is Microsoft the only operating systems vendor??

Apple is conspicuosly missing here, aprticularly since they WILL
have their 3rd OS upgrade in three years.

FIVE years, and counting for Redmond, and their browser is still in
beta while other browsers have long surpassed IE in features and
usability. It's nice to be a monopoly. Bad for innovation.