Intel Marketing. Just how stupid IS the general public?

[Tyros]

well I'm using a AMD k-6 233w/mmx I dont know if thats a first class or second class pentium. I do know this I want a faster CPU and whats wrong with going to the extreme max. I dont have the knowledge nor the skill to manipulate Chips and clock then higher then they are rated. Its not like I can goto a PC shop buy a brandnew PII or a athalon @ lets say 600mhz and ask them to overclock it to 850 or something.





Forgive me for I am new

 

[hans007]

we dont need a better consumer union, we just need smarter people willing to do research before they blow $2500 on a computer

 

[OneEng]

Midnight Rambler,
I fail to see what a real time security encoder has to do with internet speed. I may be nieve, but I know a load of BS when I see it.

I don't know what the answer is. I am simply frustrated at the current state of affairs.

Intel's idea of marketing new processors by convincing people that the internet will work better and faster ONLY with their new processor is patently not true. No one could tell the difference while browsing between a $70.00 Duron 600 and a Pentium 1Ghz.

For that matter, even a K6-2 400 would be more than adequate to the cause. As for online gaming, this is another issue altogether. Keep in mind that gamers account for a minescule percentage of internet usage.

It is like someone selling a car based on the vehicles ability to keep your glasses from spotting while in the dishwasher. That would be false advertising and the company could be held responsible in a court of law.

Unfortunately, Intel is clever in how they word their advertisments. They never SAY that the internet will be faster or better, they mearly imply that it will.....It would be a difficult case to win with the wording they use.

Intel has been such a monopoly for so long that all they really need to advertise is that they HAVE a new processor availible and people will flock in droves to buy it.

AMD should counter advertise with hard evidence refuting Intel's inferrences. They should then show some benchmark like Photoshop real time. No one is so stupid that they wouldn't understand that one machine completed the task signifigantly before the other. AMD has the goods. All they need do is publicly prove it. They have no need to decieve in order to sell their processors. I don't understand why they don't other than they are already selling everything they can make!