This will probably sound crazy, but, what if these CPU and graphics card manufacturers did this:
- mass produce their best product design to date
- instead of crippling certain products which in many cases saves them no money whatsoever, leave everything intact
- sell only a single product line - e.g. intel would only sell P4 3.2C CPUs
- sell their product for a fair price that the market will bear...again, everything will have the same price
I posted this after reading about some of the things that AMD and ATi are doing lately to "cripple" their products. One would think that they would do things like produce their value line on smaller dies and such, but no, they just cripple their high-end produts. Look at the X800PRO - it's a crippled XT. Look at the new Athlon XP chips coming out for S754 - they're crippled A64s. Look at all of the "SE" branded ATi cards. In all of these examples, I'm almost positive that this "crippling" process saves absolutely no money to the manufacturers in the vast majority of cases.
Another thing to think about is all that waste. Maybe Greenpeace should jump on something like this. The biggest waste that I know of in the computer industry is how intel changes their socket layout three times per year. It's criminal! They are forcing people to buy new motherboards with intel chipsets. The last time I checked, computer motherboards were a huge environmental hazard with all of the capacitors they have and such.
I know you guys are going to flame me for this post, and I agree, in many ways it may be considered somewhat rediculous/ludicrous. It's interesting to think about though, and I'm sure at least some of my points are very valid.
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- mass produce their best product design to date
- instead of crippling certain products which in many cases saves them no money whatsoever, leave everything intact
- sell only a single product line - e.g. intel would only sell P4 3.2C CPUs
- sell their product for a fair price that the market will bear...again, everything will have the same price
I posted this after reading about some of the things that AMD and ATi are doing lately to "cripple" their products. One would think that they would do things like produce their value line on smaller dies and such, but no, they just cripple their high-end produts. Look at the X800PRO - it's a crippled XT. Look at the new Athlon XP chips coming out for S754 - they're crippled A64s. Look at all of the "SE" branded ATi cards. In all of these examples, I'm almost positive that this "crippling" process saves absolutely no money to the manufacturers in the vast majority of cases.
Another thing to think about is all that waste. Maybe Greenpeace should jump on something like this. The biggest waste that I know of in the computer industry is how intel changes their socket layout three times per year. It's criminal! They are forcing people to buy new motherboards with intel chipsets. The last time I checked, computer motherboards were a huge environmental hazard with all of the capacitors they have and such.
I know you guys are going to flame me for this post, and I agree, in many ways it may be considered somewhat rediculous/ludicrous. It's interesting to think about though, and I'm sure at least some of my points are very valid.
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