Intel declares most current PCs obsolete
Posted by Michael on Tuesday September 10, 2002 @12:36PM
from the planned-obsolescence dept.
Squid writes: Concerned about declining sales of computers, Intel has officially declared most of the PCs currently in use obsolete. “Anything less than 1 GHz is now obsolete, regardless of whether it still works,” said an Intel spokesperson.
Intel has sent an open letter to Microsoft, urging them to release a slower operating system. A quote from their impassioned plea: “Windows XP may be bloated, but it still runs fine at 500 MHz. How are we supposed to sell these new 3.0 GHz Pentium IVs? Only graphic artists need that kind of speed, and most of them are Mac people.”
Intel stresses that they can’t force anyone to upgrade. However, according to the press release, those who continue to use slower machines “will be laughed at behind their backs.”
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I like this quote: “Banias is the first time we've developed an architecture from the ground up,”. Guess they must have stolen the designs for all of their previous processors from someone.
Comment by Matthew — September 10, 2002 @ 7:20 pm
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It's been confirmed that Apple has Jaguar (OS X 10.2) running on vanilla Intel hardware. Maybe Intel can get them to release it. That'll really slow things down.
Comment by Matthew — September 10, 2002 @ 8:34 pm