DELL APPEARS to be charging through the nose for the Intel Pentium 4 Extreme Edition – or it will be when it starts shipping the boxes that use it. A reader notices that if you use the Dell online site to configure two PCs identically, one with a 3.20GHz Pentium 4 and the other with a 3.2GHz Pentium 4 EE, the one with the newer chip costs a staggering $1,400 more.
Intel's list price for the Pentium 4EE is around $920 when you buy 1000 of them, but we suspect that Dell gets a considerable discount seeing as it's Chipzilla's biggest distributor. The reader notes: "If the Pentium 4EE cost $925 in lots of 1000's, and Dell gets highly subsidised on Intel's processors, why the $1400? At most it should be $925 more and Dell would make the same margin it made on the other system".
Of course, Dell can charge what it likes and you can pay the firm as much as you want, but it might be worth considering whether the marketing buzz associated with the Extreme Edition is worth the extra $500, mightn't it? Have you been extremeditioned?
News source: The Inq
Intel's list price for the Pentium 4EE is around $920 when you buy 1000 of them, but we suspect that Dell gets a considerable discount seeing as it's Chipzilla's biggest distributor. The reader notes: "If the Pentium 4EE cost $925 in lots of 1000's, and Dell gets highly subsidised on Intel's processors, why the $1400? At most it should be $925 more and Dell would make the same margin it made on the other system".
Of course, Dell can charge what it likes and you can pay the firm as much as you want, but it might be worth considering whether the marketing buzz associated with the Extreme Edition is worth the extra $500, mightn't it? Have you been extremeditioned?
News source: The Inq
The image also contains a Universal Media Disc, the 1.8GB mini disc-style storage device that will house games, movies and music. It's not entirely clear where this will slot into the machine although, judging by the curve of PSP itself, it looks as if UMDs will be inserted into the side of the machine.
"PSP will be the Walkman of the future," said Kutaragi, who also added that Sony eventually plan to add "telecommunication features" to the device.
"PSP will not be one kind of product," he said. "Rather, it is a platform of related devices with the capacity to add or subtract features."
Kutaragi also announced that final design details are still to be confirmed, so it's unclear how different the current mock-up of the PSP will be to the final model.
Meanwhile, with PSP's movie and music-playing capabilities, Sony have explicitly stated, "We are taking on iPod with our new device. We are coming at [Apple CEO] Steve Jobs on that front." In addition to PSP, Sony will next year release a digital music player to rival iPod for just $60 (around £35).
For more on PSP, including its full specifications, check out the links below.
"We're Dell, people have money, people are stupid, this chip is new, people like new things, meeting adjourned" ?
You're right.
You pay cash to get cache!!
With the Prescott coming out soon, I'd bet AMD will bite the bullet. There's no major advantage for AMD right now until more 64-bit native apps for AMD64 are out.
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Mainly they probably just want something to show off when benchmarks are requested.
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i kitted out a PC with every bell and whistle i could think of on dell's website (500 gb in 2 HDs, 2 monitors, a radeon 9800 XT, a few other things) and the cost came out to an eyepopping $6800. if you feel like kitting out a rather monsterous dual proc xeon 3.2 ghz (same chip as the EE, no?) and hang all the bells and whistles on it, you pay about the same...except you got a dualie versus one over-reved single proc processor.
if they could chop the cost of the EE down to a $2-300 markup, it might be a sweet deal to some, but for $1500, you could get a pretty nice spare PC (like, f.e. a XP media center PC. dell has a few floating in the $1500 bracket) which whould be a heck of a better deal than a P4 that's likely no more than 10% faster than the regular P4
No wonder MS is going IBM PPC for the XBOX 2.
The Pentium 4 EE was not supposed to be a retail processor - it was just a knee-jerk reaction to the FX-51, in order to prevent AMD from being able to say they had the fastest desktop processor.
Buying a P4EE is like buying an Apple. You can get an equivalent AMD system for a lot less, and for the same money you can build an AMD system that owns every single benchmark.
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