Comments on: Intel's Celeron takes the 64-bit route

Chipmaking giant releases new processor, prepares for battle with AMD's Sempron in the value PC space.

[jmanjohns2]

Your missing the point

You are completely missing the point of having a 64 bit chip. Sure intel released a 64 bit low-end chip, but it probably won't have the power to run longhorn very well anyway, so why bother. AMD came to market with 64 bit well before intel. Perhaps you don't consider the Athlon 64 mainstream because of the price. Consider this: it costs the same as or less than a similar pentium 4. Or is that not mainstream enough either? If you're referring to units shipped, it is largely the fault of manufacturers and biased reviewers like yourself that AMD is being stifled. They've had a better architecture for nearly a year now and people refuse to accept that. Until intel starts innovating again, they will always be second rate to the hard core users (who have significant sway in determining how the high end and ultimately the low end develop).

[spork27]

Thank you.

I'm glad someone else has a sense of the larger picture here.

Because of the continued stories and news articles like this one at cNet I'm starting to feel like it's becoming a very dumbed down site that caters to high school trends and kisses the buttocks of certain companies.