Quote Originally Posted by Chad Boga View Post
Intel have declared i7 to be a niche high end product for now, with more consumer friendly versions to be released in Q3 09. So in this sense, i7 is not like the introduction of Conroe or Penryn which were mainstream immediately.

Is it your contention that when Intel likely next announces pricing adjustments on the Penryn range, that i7 will be substantially altered too?

Coz I think i7's official prices probably won't change at all till Q2 09 at the earliest.
So the niche range of cpus are actually cheaper than old technology. Where is that declaration? Maybe you need to familiarize yourself with Intel's pricing scheme. Even the QX6850 is more expensive than i965XE
http://www.google.com/products?hl=en...num=4&ct=title

Q6700 (because of the 10x multi) and slightly higher clocks 2.66ghz is in the same price segment as i920 and even Q9550.

http://www.google.com/products/catal...ult#ps-sellers

Do you see any pattern here?