Intel facing a class action lawsuit in the state of Illinois

[Tanked]

SexyK, the Willamette was not a good chip, price to performance. I brought it up because I was showing how Intel has mislead the masses in the past. At its release, it barely outperformed the P3 at a lower clockspeed, and the P4 costed threefold. The Athlon handily outperformed it with a much lower cost.

Intel did not design the chip to trick the masses, I know. But I'm not talking about that. I'm not even talking about which chip is superior (and I'm aware that the P4 has the speed crown) - but I don't think there's anything out of line about what AMD's doing. If Intel's branding is misleading [Extreme Graphics], what's wrong with telling everyone that?

 

[EdipisReks]

how is the 845G misleading? it does indeed offer "extreme performance" compared to the 810E graphics chip. the lawsuit won't go anywhere.

 

[MadRat]

They just forgot to mention that the 810e, 815e, and 845g all have extremely BAD graphics...

 

[tart666]

I think this case missed the window by a few months. If you look at the benches (dig'em up, don't be lazy) on P4 2.53/533 vs PIII 1.0/133 you will find they match EXACTLY clock per clock.
In fact the P4 is 2.48 times faster in Q3A. How uncanny is that?

So I think the litigators here are going to have a pretty tough time proving any wrongdoing on Intella's part.

Especially with HT about to kick in, P4 will be faster than PIII clock per clock. (at least in some apps)

Now, don't get me wrong, I hate P4 as much as the next guy, but seriously -- wtf? legally forcing the Chipzilla to say "slower than PIII" in commercials? capitalism will grind to a halt ! the goddamn russians are going to take over! come on now! don't give the country away!

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[LuNoTiCK]

People are too suehappy, it pisses me off. Thats all people ever think about.

 

[Acanthus]

ya know what all this boils down to, friends dont let friends buy Celeron!

 

[MadRat]

I'm willing to bet that its concerning the P4-1.3GHz and P4-1.4GHz Williamettes, not the P4-Celerons. When they came out the P!!!-Taulitan was running at 1.26GHz and 1.3GHz. The Taulitan-based Celerons were probably on par with these low end Pentium4's even though they were running at 1GHz, although the Pentium4's were priced higher and mated to the slowest RDRAM on the market, PC600. Intel's benchmarks showed Pentium4s mated to PC800 RDRAM, not PC600, which misled people into believing that their CPU was going to perform faster than they did.

If this is about the Pentium4 mated to PC100 and PC133 SDRAM then that would be even funnier. Intel posted performance figures of the 845 chipset using PC2100 DDR RAM when alot of OEMs were selling the 845 chipset mated to PC100 SDRAM! That would be an OEM problem, not an Intel problem.