Why you shouldn't be the first to buy a P4

[whizler]

It appears the new P4 is out in some places, but I wondered if anyone caught this on Tomshardware.com:

"Basically, the upcoming Pentium 4 with the 'Willamette' core is only going to have a rather short life span and the same is even valid for Socket423, which is supposed to be phased out together with the 'Willamette'-Pentium 4 as well as i850 in mid 2001. The 'Northwood' Pentium 4 processor will be using a new Socket called 'mPGA478'. The 'Brookdale' chipset is not supposed to be even validated with 'Willamette', but only with the new 'Northwood' Pentium 4.

The rest of the reasoning is here.

So the first to buy a P4 will have a very limited upgrade path.

 

[LXi]

Willy's life will be less than 2 quarters short.

 

[Shagga]

I'm usually first to upgrade and then I moan all the time when the price drop. I'm my worse enemy. I don't think i'll bother this time. Not for 6 months anyway.

😉

 

[Cknyc]

is it just me or has Tom's site become more reputable?

 

[Howard]

LOL!

 

[andylawcc]

that info is not Tom-exclusive, Kyle had it too. and P4 will use Rambus, not sure how that couple will work out...

 

[Whitedog]

I don't see where people got the idea that his site wasn't reputable to begin with? Sure, he's anti-American and says a LOT of crap about us, mostly in e-mails to others though, but he's usually done a pretty good job of posting data that was "to the best of his abilities", which to me, is OK.

And usually when he "does" post wrong info, he "usually" says "ooops" that was bad info.

Leave Tom alone and let him bash on Intel. (and you Know they deserve everything he bashes them for too) I love it 😉

Don't think he doesn't bash AMD when they mess up! They have, and he Has! Just not lately, because they've been flying a straight line.

 

[Midnight Rambler]

Tom was the first to "officially" take paybacks from hardware company(ies). Remember the nVidia seal of approval? He lost all credibility at that point ...