all of you have bought into Intel marketing at this point, there are gonna be plenty of these cores circulating in due time but thanks to the hype and marketing that many of you have done for Intel, muchlike the rumour of 939 opterons being discontinued, they're just trying to get everyone scrambling out to get them and I can already tell it's working
as for keeping most of their fabs producing netburst, that makes perfect sense as well. If you knew absolutely nothing about processors would you rather buy a 3GHz Pentium D or a 2Ghz Core Cuo? Enthusiast market is a very small minority of the market and Intel isn't gonna be trying to please the enthusiast market, they're trying to please the resellers namely Dell, Compaq, HP etc.
I still have a huge feeling many of you are going to be in for a real letdown, this isn't the same thing as when the venices were released or the opterons for that many where there were already a wide assortment of tested and tweaked boards...no doubt many of you are going end up with a nice core but a crap board to go with it because you didn't wait and let this stuff mature...NEVER ever buy leading edge technology as it will almost always be buggy
that said, your money...I don't particularily care as I am fine with my current processor and couldn't give a crap if it takes longer than 10 seconds to calculate a number
as for keeping most of their fabs producing netburst, that makes perfect sense as well. If you knew absolutely nothing about processors would you rather buy a 3GHz Pentium D or a 2Ghz Core Cuo? Enthusiast market is a very small minority of the market and Intel isn't gonna be trying to please the enthusiast market, they're trying to please the resellers namely Dell, Compaq, HP etc.
I still have a huge feeling many of you are going to be in for a real letdown, this isn't the same thing as when the venices were released or the opterons for that many where there were already a wide assortment of tested and tweaked boards...no doubt many of you are going end up with a nice core but a crap board to go with it because you didn't wait and let this stuff mature...NEVER ever buy leading edge technology as it will almost always be buggy
that said, your money...I don't particularily care as I am fine with my current processor and couldn't give a crap if it takes longer than 10 seconds to calculate a number