Core Duo Costs an Arm & Both Legs

Sledgehammer70Sledgehammer70 California Icrontian
edited May 2006 in Science & Tech
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

Comments

  • Unknown
    edited May 2006
    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
  • Sledgehammer70Sledgehammer70 California Icrontian
    edited May 2006
    That is why it says Rumor...
  • WingaWinga Mr South Africa Icrontian
    edited May 2006
    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.
  • LeonardoLeonardo Wake up and smell the glaciers Eagle River, Alaska Icrontian
    edited May 2006
    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.
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited May 2006
    Consider the news source. PC Insiders know that the Inq is virtually never wrong.
  • lemonlimelemonlime Canada Member
    edited May 2006
    Based on the info in that PDF file, I'd say the pricing is actually very competitive and realistic.
  • mmonninmmonnin Centreville, VA
    edited May 2006
    Thrax wrote:
    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.
  • JengoJengo Pasco, WA | USA
    edited May 2006
    mmonnin wrote:
    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!
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited May 2006
    Nope.
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