Replies to post #14992 on Intel Corp (INTC)

[I_banker]

Obviously nothing today. But what about Unreal Tournament 2005 or 2006? If developers are just starting to exploit the abilities of 64-bit, how long until someone uses them fully?

If you office, email and surf, you will never know the difference. If you rip home movies, play games or do other sundry multimedia, you may come to miss the capabilities.

[jhalada]

morrowinder,

Lets put this in terms of a real user.

Let me ask you this: If there was a great opportunity for Intel to gain something (revenue, profit, market share, mind share), but it did nothing for a user of the product, do you think Intel would let this opportunity go?

How about something that arguably does nothing for the user, but could hurt Intel?

In both cases Intel will do what is good for Intel, independent of the "terms of a real user".

I and millions like me made the choice to stick with 32 bits(Pentium 4 3ghz purchased 2003). Exactly how is this going to hurt me?

Fine choice. Suppose you bought one (Prescott) today with 64 bit capability, NX non existent or disabled. How is it going to hurt you?

I just help my friend whose machine was brought down by spyware / viruses. Dell Pentium iii 1 GHz (which I recommended, BTW). The machine was in hopeless state, so the solution is loading XP and upgrading memory to 512MB. (He is a light user - web, e-mail, word).

3 to 4 years from now, such a fix / upgrade from today's Prescott would be denied to you.

So I think you are wrong in terms of Intel decision making (which is dependent on the benefit to the user, and you are wrong about what benefits a user.

Joe