Agree on bapco...
The timing is just too coincidental to believe they are not related. Part of the lawsuit mentioned quoting spec benchmarks; which Intel still does. It sounds like the key was including the complete system configuration, which was not done in the original advertising that they were sued for. If you look at the benchmarks on the Intel site today, they still have a strong bias toward newer processors. They have a habit of comparing current CPU's to the 1Ghz PIII. The PIII system is equiped with a 5400 RPM hard drive, a small amount of RAM (128M or so), a really old video card, etc... The justification being that a person who owns a PIII system today will have all that old stuff with small RAM, while the new P4 system they are upgrading to will come with all the faster and bigger goodies.
The lawsuit paid out to people who bought "overdrive" processors, which clearly were meant to upgrade the older system, without increasing the other variables in the comparison. Intel did drop out of the "overdrive" processor business.
--Alan
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