Comments on: Intel chip glut may bring holiday cheer to PC buyers

Extra Intel inventory bought by PC makers and a push by AMD could drive prices down, according to analysts.

[blizzard23]

Intel marketing scores one

The writer refers to the Centrino as a processor. You have to give it to Intel marketing for their efforts.

[blizzard23]

Intel marketing scores one

The writer refers to the Centrino as a processor. You have to give it to Intel marketing for their efforts.

rebates?

game machine hardware is sometimes sold at a loss... and I expect the linux community to take advantage of that.. though I highly doubt its going to effect the profit margin.. controls in the supply chain for the closed architectures will offset... the x86 world will need to deliver.. I dont mind paying for some extra chips that are dedicated to translation either.. put em right into the bios... and the 64-bit systems could really use some tweaking...

rebates?

game machine hardware is sometimes sold at a loss... and I expect the linux community to take advantage of that.. though I highly doubt its going to effect the profit margin.. controls in the supply chain for the closed architectures will offset... the x86 world will need to deliver.. I dont mind paying for some extra chips that are dedicated to translation either.. put em right into the bios... and the 64-bit systems could really use some tweaking...

[Des Alba]

Entry Level PCs A Waste Of Money!

Entry level PCs aren't good for much else than acting like a terminal for web surfing and email. A PC needs at least 512Meg of RAM, regardless of CPU, in order to run XP successfully. Anything less will cause excessive roll-in-roll-out of the swp files. PC marketers would do well to sell a PC with at least a DL DVD burner, since it is currently very popular and in demand. Other configurations are just outdated and obsolete.

[seneschal]

That may be true for you and me...

But a significant portion of users just use their computers for exactly the features you mentioned, email and web browsing. An entry-level computer is perfectly fine for them.

[Des Alba]

Entry Level PCs A Waste Of Money!

Entry level PCs aren't good for much else than acting like a terminal for web surfing and email. A PC needs at least 512Meg of RAM, regardless of CPU, in order to run XP successfully. Anything less will cause excessive roll-in-roll-out of the swp files. PC marketers would do well to sell a PC with at least a DL DVD burner, since it is currently very popular and in demand. Other configurations are just outdated and obsolete.

[seneschal]

That may be true for you and me...

But a significant portion of users just use their computers for exactly the features you mentioned, email and web browsing. An entry-level computer is perfectly fine for them.

[heystoopid]

oh goody

Cheap intel heaters that masquerade as computers for winter warming

[heystoopid]

oh goody

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