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Subject: Re: Top 10 Reasons Intel will not Participate in the Dual-Core Duel :-)

Author: John Dillard

Date: 05:48:40 11/19/05

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On November 18, 2005 at 16:59:54, Yar wrote:

>Top 10 Reasons Intel will not Participate in the Dual-Core Duel
>
>10. Tried to follow their own roadmap to get to the duel
>9. Decided to take the "front-side bus" to the duel; got stuck in a bottleneck
>8. The "Intel Inside" stickers they used to package the cores together keep
>melting
>7. Too busy rearranging the deck chairs on the Itanic
>6. "Hey, we don't expect anyone to actually buy these things!"
>5. Didn't want to compete when they realized that the duel would involve actual
>"rules" of fair competition
>4. They couldn't get a permit from the fire department to emit that much heat
>3. No systems available yet - protective clothing used by manufacturers only
>safe for up to 149 watts
>2. Dell told them they weren't allowed to participate
>
>And the number one reason Intel won't accept the dual core duel:
>
>1. Moore's Law has been replaced by "Paul's Paradox": the number of canceled
>products per year at Intel will double every year after the introduction of the
>AMD Opteron processor.

That's funny!  I'd love to see a tournament on the quad G5 dual cores.



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