I dropped the laptop and it EXPLODED INTO TINY LITTLE PIECES!

[jonnyGURU]

So I'm with Intel talking about laptops. We're talking about modularity (is that a real word?), upgradeability and creating standards. The usual.

I'm looking at their white copy and they've seperated the market into "Value" and "Performance".

What about Value/Performance?

Am I alone on this?

I must be because obviously a big company like Intel hasn't taken this into consideration.

What's the first this that you, I or a customer is going to ask when looking at a laptop?

"How much is it?"

Intel thinks there is LOW END (12-13" dual scan with a Celeron) and there is HIGH END (P4 with 14-15" active matrix screen) and that's it.

Are they really this clueless?

What if you have someone that does alot with Power point presentations on the road. Does he need a P3 or P4? No. How about a larger monitor? Yes. Want to make sure those slide look as good as they do on the projection as they do on your screen!

What if you have someone that crunches a lot of numbers or does a lot of multitasking and would appreciate a faster CPU, but doesn't need the multimedia advantages of a large, active matrix screen?

Is this really the sort of tunnel vision the industry leader has???

 

[beat mania]

So ... like ... why didn't you ask them yourself?

 

[yakko]

Yes they are clueless.



Where is my SCSI card?

 

[jonnyGURU]

I did ask and they couldn't understand where I (or any of the other resellers) were coming from.

They have no clue that there is little profit margin on laptops to begin with and that we have to make the most out of our market.

They think that everyone with a lot of needs has a lot of money and those who have little money have little needs.

Like I said; tunnel vision.

 

[beat mania]

Ok. Now that's sad.

But ... ok, take this for example:



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What if you have someone that does alot with Power point presentations on the road. Does he need a P3 or P4?
No. How about a larger monitor? Yes. Want to make sure those slide look as good as they do on the projection
as they do on your screen!
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what does Intel have to do with anything other than the CPU? It would
be the notebook manufacturer's job to decide what size the screen is, no?