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Intel pricing?

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Tripleshot

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With the attractive pricing of AMD,I am reluctant to offer Intel systems with little to offer in price/performance considerations. I am concerned about a dramatic lack of performance with using a high priced celeron 600 apposed to a Duron 600 with its LI cache and L2 cache running at 200mghz fsb as the celeron chugs at 66 mghz. Why pay so much more for such a lack of performance?

Am I wrong about this? Does Intel plan to address this descfepency and provide some copmetitive pricing with their PIII line any time soon?
 
Intel already cut their price, but its still a mile away from AMD. But it doesnt matter really, Abit motherboards will magically make everything fast regardless which one you go for.
 
intel dont need to the smart people(less than 5% of buyers) are the only ones who buy amd. They wont drop their prices by 10% just so they can gain 5% of the market.
 
The main reason for this is that normal people think that if it's not intel it isnt compatible with windoze, it will crash, it isnt as fast, etc. People will always buy what they think is the best not necesarily wat is the best. Since most people who buy computers dont know jack about em this is not likely to change.
 
People think intel is good because ordinary people started buying computers starting with the original pentium(it made windows95 usable so computer illiterate's could use one) and at that time amd and cyrix pretty much sucked and intel was pretty much the only reasonable option. My first computer was a Compaq presario with a p166 mmx.
 
a few years ago who woulda ventured into AMD/Cyrix realm? Not me, esp. with all the production probs AMD was having, and the heat and incompatibility issue with Cyrix - all that has changed, AMD is a real competitior now, not simply for price/performance. But people still remember the way it used to be - so Intel will hold on to its market share until it can make enough mistakes so that the uninformed will change to AMD.
 
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