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Sledgehammer70
9 May 2006, 3:31pm
Intel has given us a peak at its new desktop line in regards to specs and benchmarks, but has not given much to go on for the price. Until now, it is rumored the Core Duo 2500 is reported to cost a staggering $2,200 per chip.

how can Intel get away with selling the "brains" of a computer at such a high premium? After all, the chipset and every other piece of electronics on the Asus board is the acme of technology.
Wow, AMD's AM2 is looking real good in my eyes.

Source: The Inquirer (http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=31569)
(Guest)
10 May 2006, 5:11am
this item should be removed...if you bother to follow the links you see that the core duo 2500 (2M L2, 2.0GHZ, 667mhz FSB, 65nm) cost $423.

eveyone getting excited over a typo.....geez.

-ryko
Sledgehammer70
10 May 2006, 5:35am
That is why it says Rumor...
Winga
10 May 2006, 6:11am
If INTEL wants to win market share back from Nvidia they may as well close their doors if they try sell their Core Duo's at that price. They arrogant, but they not stupid.
I tend to agree with ryko. The boys at the Inquirer were burning "special" insence when they wrote that article.
Leonardo
10 May 2006, 6:53am
it is rumored the Core Duo 2500 is reported to cost a staggering $2,200 per chip The only realistic word in that phrase is "rumored." Although Intel is a marketing company that happens to make microcircuitry products, they aren't so stupid as to let AMD take even more market share without a fight. I think Intel has awakened from their drunken idiocy of the last two years.


But maybe, just maybe, they really will continue to be stupid, and there will be a glut of Conroes on the market, and I can snatch them up on Ebay for a song like I did my 820s... nah, but it was a nice thought.
Thrax
10 May 2006, 7:11am
Consider the news source. PC Insiders know that the Inq is virtually never wrong.
lemonlime
10 May 2006, 2:56pm
Based on the info in that PDF file, I'd say the pricing is actually very competitive and realistic.
mmonnin
13 May 2006, 4:52pm
Consider the news source. PC Insiders know that the Inq is virtually never wrong.

Yep what they find out before anyone else usually comes out to be truth in the end.
Jengo
15 May 2006, 9:09am
Yep what they find out before anyone else usually comes out to be truth in the end.

i hope you guys are being umm.. whats that word... umm... oh yeah! Sarcastic. I hope you guys are being sarcastic!
Thrax
15 May 2006, 9:09am
Nope.