Quote Originally Posted by T_Flight View Post
It's smart buisness. It's made them money, and they then put that money into R&D to keep the performance edge, and continually innovate new products. The good part for us is their buisness model is very smart, and shows security. Nobody has to worry whether Intel will be around.

Intel has ran their buisness very intelligently. They know you have to make money to survive, and to have the money needed for R&D. That's the thing I like most about Intel is that they have some highly intelligent people running things, and make smart moves.
Well -- many arguments both ways.... taking the smart business approach as you argue, one can understand why Intel would want to direct performance orient people to premium oriented CPUs ... raise ASPs, charge what the market will accept, and get 200 or more for a low end premium vs a low end non premium...

However, my advice to Intel --- make the enthusiast happy.... make them feel loved, and get loved in return ok... sappy, silly but what I mean is ... AMD found a great deal of success providing quality parts at low price to the hobbyist/enthusiast to play with ... in return, these same people help market their product to family, friends, and in forums ... I think it is a mistake making a part that 'shuts' out the weekend overclocker -- it doesn't show any love

Jack