Buy the VIA chipset. You should jump on it quick though. In a month or two, VIA will be so buried in legal paperwork that they won't be able to put a resistor in a box without a court injunction. It's really too bad that Intel can't let this slide, but I'm guessing that Intel and Rambus(t) have been in bed together so long that someone forgot where the key to the handcuffs is. Some Intel CPO woke up one day to find himself gagged and bent over a box, and his lawyers told him they couldn't do anything, but that they'd take some pictures to remind him in the future that KY and a condem aren't all that's needed in the corporate world.
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Re:I don't get it...
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Drakantus
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· Score: 3, Troll
The real issue is this: intel can't controll VIA, and the P4X266 chipset shows decent performance. This screws up intel's original plan: release i845 with SDR ram support, with poor performance. Later add DDR support, but artificially cripple the chipset so it still performs poorly. Then, say "we told you so, RAMBUS RAM is the only way to get good performance with the processors of the future, look we tried DDR and it still sucks, so you just have to pay the extra and use RDRAM".
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The PII/PIII serial number "Big Brother Inside" disaster.
And now this. And never mind the fact that, when you buy Intel, you get the honor of paying more for less performance. What a joke. Has it never occurred to these corporate idiots that they're losing market share?
And in case anyone from Intel is reading this... Hey guys, there's a reason your numbers are declining: many people don't find your products competitive anymore. You might have been able to get away with such tactics five years ago, but not anymore. I'm running a K6-II right now, and if there was ever a miniscule chance that I'd have purchased an Intel chip in the future or even recommended one to someone else, it's gone now.
-- That light you see at the end of the tunnel might be from an oncoming train.
Ok, What am I missing here?
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stuffman64
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Ok, I just don't get this:
"They are not licensed to sell products that are compatible with the Pentium 4." -Intel spokesman Chuck Mulloy.
The way I see it, would that also make any software that runs on the Pentium 4-based computer illegal too? Well, unless of course, your software is free (and it should be). They should sue Microsoft also, because those bastards sell products that are compatible with Pentium 4s, and it doesn't even work half the time!
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Buy the VIA chipset. You should jump on it quick though. In a month or two, VIA will be so buried in legal paperwork that they won't be able to put a resistor in a box without a court injunction. It's really too bad that Intel can't let this slide, but I'm guessing that Intel and Rambus(t) have been in bed together so long that someone forgot where the key to the handcuffs is. Some Intel CPO woke up one day to find himself gagged and bent over a box, and his lawyers told him they couldn't do anything, but that they'd take some pictures to remind him in the future that KY and a condem aren't all that's needed in the corporate world.
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The real issue is this: intel can't controll VIA, and the P4X266 chipset shows decent performance. This screws up intel's original plan: release i845 with SDR ram support, with poor performance. Later add DDR support, but artificially cripple the chipset so it still performs poorly. Then, say "we told you so, RAMBUS RAM is the only way to get good performance with the processors of the future, look we tried DDR and it still sucks, so you just have to pay the extra and use RDRAM".
I love going down to the elementary school, watching all the kids jump and shout, but they dont know I'm using blanks.
Let's see now...
The Pentium FPU error recall debacle.
The PII/PIII serial number "Big Brother Inside" disaster.
And now this. And never mind the fact that, when you buy Intel, you get the honor of paying more for less performance. What a joke. Has it never occurred to these corporate idiots that they're losing market share?
And in case anyone from Intel is reading this... Hey guys, there's a reason your numbers are declining: many people don't find your products competitive anymore. You might have been able to get away with such tactics five years ago, but not anymore. I'm running a K6-II right now, and if there was ever a miniscule chance that I'd have purchased an Intel chip in the future or even recommended one to someone else, it's gone now.
That light you see at the end of the tunnel might be from an oncoming train.
Ok, I just don't get this:
"They are not licensed to sell products that are compatible with the Pentium 4." -Intel spokesman Chuck Mulloy.
The way I see it, would that also make any software that runs on the Pentium 4-based computer illegal too? Well, unless of course, your software is free (and it should be). They should sue Microsoft also, because those bastards sell products that are compatible with Pentium 4s, and it doesn't even work half the time!
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