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Apple's iPhone and the Future of Intel

Sorry, I have a 6630. Ugly as hell, if you ask me. Got it as a bargain, though

Apple's iPhone and the Future of Intel

What? Did I say something wrong? I have a nokia 6600 and it really is a plastic brick. I use it for phoning, messaging, keeping pics, the alarm and the clock. Way too bulky and short battery life. Let's consider the N95 (already out there) and the Iphone: Do you watch movies/surf the web in a tiny phone screen? Could any of those be regularly used as a music/video player and still work without recharging twice a day? Is that touchscreen worth such price?

I think maps are the only practical addition (quite good, btw) those aforementioned models bring. I hope wireless coverage and fuel cells will make next gen phones take off in the future, just in time for I2phone or N105. But can't see the reason to shell out 600$ for these hi tech toys.

Apple's iPhone and the Future of Intel

I think the IPhone is overrated. Judging by the dimensions, capabilities and Apple's lack of experience in cell phone design, it will be an expensive brick sized power hog that will let you make phone calls between unit reboots. Like most next gen uber cell phones. It sure is a great engineering achievement and looks nice too but the big question is how practical it will be once operational (that is, after a stable firmware and a price reduction). This phone sounds just great for Steve's pal, Al Gore. He has the money (and the carbon offsets) to play with one.

For us mortals, what good is mp3 playing if it eats half your battery in 2 hours?. Now, once we have affordable fuel cells ... then I think all these new generation toys will be more appealing. But at the moment, I still have to find anything more practical than my old nokia 6100.

AMD Is In Real Trouble

That is nothing. The real war that got fanboys enraged was good old 3dfx vs NVDA. People childishly identified themselves with companies as if they were football teams and a simple discussion about a technical issue rapidly degenerated into the nastiest personal attacks. When 3dfx went belly up, the fanboy base even wrote an internet petition so they didn't sell the company to evil Nvidia.

Although not as shameful, the INTC/AMD thing is getting a little too far. I personally like AMD and hope they survive but I wouldn't like to be on their shoes right now.

Intel’s Next Generation Processor: 'The Biggest Leap Since the Pentium Pro'

I agree with you AMD gave us consumers great value for our money releasing superior processors at lower prices. They introduced much needed competition in the market. But they slept in the laurels and now Intel reclaimed the lead.

Lets not let our simpathy for the "underdog" cloud our judgement: Intel kept on top offering inferior products with worse design and about the same litho tech, thanks to its financial/sales/market... muscle. Now they have the best design and a 12 month lead in microlithography process. Even if Barcelona was 40% faster clock by clock than Clovertown as they say (I suspect this is the case in a couple handpicked scenarios) ... it will run at 2.8 Ghz. This Clovertown thingy can already be clocked high enough to deny any speed advantage.

The best we can hope is AMD to survive this round to deliver a nice surprise. Unfortunately, even that possibility is not completely clear.

Merrill: Intel's More Interested In Crushing AMD Than Improving Margins

Big fat cats make most of their money with stock options and the like, making them personally interested in a high stock market valuation of their companies. Plus, crushing the competition sooner or later translates into higher GM. So I hope INTC will grow at AMDs expense and a future AMD bounce back when they come with a new product line.

Anyway, the market is unpredictable

Color On AMD's Warning: Is Barcelona Chip A Savior?

AMD is in a really bad position technology and market wise. It was able to stand against mighty Intel thanks to superior engineering but now the tide has turned. Intel has the high ground in everything that matters: brand name, financial muscle, design (Core 2 beats the living daylights out of AMD64) and microlithography process. Just having the first 2, it stood as number 1 in the market for years. Having the four, AMD doesn't stand a chance.

Plus, Apple won't jeopardize relations with Intel for whatever the minimum power savings they get out of choosing a Turion for their laptops (if Turion was better than Merom, which is not the case).