No not now, it was the argument form the begin.Originally Posted by STaRGaZeR
Everyone and dog here on the forum knew that i5 was coming and would offer the same architecture (and for that matter, the same performance) on a cheaper platform.
I never understood all the complaining about i7 and the platform. Intel never has hidden the fact that it is the server platform that would be sold here and comes with additional costs and is targeted normaly at another audience.
I upgrade my stuff once or twice a year, and depending on what is available at that time and offers a reasonable increase in performance over the stuff I own gets my money.
Ci7 already saved me days, if not week, of time for my work at the university. I was quite happy that i got it, else some of my work would have been draged out quite a bit.
What do you have to say about all the extreme editions? Remember the QX6700? A few months after it was released you could get the Q6700 that was basically the same for a cheaper price. Same for the QX9650 etc. The important thing here was again time. You could get top performance quite a time before it was availablefor mainstream. Its the exact same game for S1336 vs S1156.
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