Pentium 4 performance lawsuit tossed out

TechSpot ^ | December 3, 2007 | Justin Mann

[SunkenCiv]

Everyone always claims to be the fastest in X or Y. We know that and accept that. Such was not the case with the Pentium 4, or at least for one small group of people. They opted to take Intel to court because Intel's claims of performance boosts weren't quite factual. Then again, anyone who used the Pentium 4 through its various iterations remembers how dismal it was in the beginning. Was it really worth suing over? Now, years later, a judge has said no. Or, at least, he has said that a lawsuit against Intel for "misrepresenting" the speed of the Pentium 4 line shouldn't go forward, and cannot become a class action suit. The case ended up making it to the Supreme Court - where Intel found itself defending the technical performance of their processors. The case isn't over, but will not be as grandiose as the people attacking Intel had hoped.

[SunkenCiv]

Good-bye, Pentium--hello, Core 2 Duo ^
	Posted by Ernest_at_the_Beach On General/Chat ^ 07/27/2006 4:39:33 PM EDT · 4 replies · 289+ views CNET News.com | July 27, 2006, 12:41 PM PT | Tom Krazit, CNET News.com SANTA CLARA, Calif.--Intel officially closed the books on the Pentium era on Thursday with the Core 2 Duo, its most important product launch in 13 years. "This is not just an incremental change, this is a revolutionary leap," Intel CEO Paul Otellini said at a launch event here, held in a heavily air-conditioned tent. The last time the company held such an event at its headquarters was when it introduced the Pentium processor in 1993, a similarly important milestone in its history. Back then, the PC market was a fraction of its current size, Otellini said. Pentium quickly became one...

[SunkenCiv]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=pentium

[SkyDancer]

Ok, so in PC land which is the fastest now and does Wal-Mart sell it?

[Sen Jack S. Fogbound]

The CPU by itself may be fast nor nonfast. It depends on the chipset and the motherboard design.

For myself I use an ASUS motherboard and the KT400 chipset with the AMD processor.

It’s pretty damn fast for me!

[TheRobb7]

So if a man doesn’t, uh, perform....that means he won’t be sued.

Right?

(giggle)

[Frobenius]

Well, the FASTEST laptop that runs MicroSoft Vista is...

...drum roll...

...an Apple Macintosh :)

Yes, Really -- See http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,136649-page,3-c,notebooks/article.html

We live in a strange world - and MicroSoft had better gets its act together at least at some point...

[djf]

In general, haven’t the EVEN number of the chip series meant more transitional/developmental stages? I read something about that way back...

[SunkenCiv]

I think it’s the other way.

[SkyDancer]

The thing with Mac’s (from what I’ve heard) is they’re not backward compatible plus when you go into a computer shop looking for software there are more for PC’s than Mac’s ... a while back wasn’t there a plug-in for Mac’s that would run PC software?

[cinives]

Why would they sue Intel ? I’d think that Microsoft would be the obvious and best target - we all know Windows is the biggest piece of crap OS ever developed.

[Yo-Yo]

And you know why the Macbook was fastest? Better graphics card for the graphics hog Vista.

It won by a single point.

[SunkenCiv]

Wal-Mart’s $200 PC - sold out (10,000 sold...running Linux Ubuntu)
ZDNET | November 13th, 2007 | Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
Posted on 11/13/2007 2:19:21 PM EST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1925183/posts

[SunkenCiv]

[gjones77]

Ahh.... that’s still all PC hardware, Intel Processor, Intel core logic chipset, Intel HD Audio, Intel based video.

It’s all PC hardware, anyone could make a similar machine and would run just as fast.

So please, use logic, that has nothing to do with Microsoft since they don’t build the machines, just ship the OS.

Wow, you mas people are bad...

[joebuck]

"The CPU by itself may be fast nor nonfast. It depends on the chipset and the motherboard design."

And the front side bus, and the hard drive set up and a dozen other things including how bloated you've let Windows and its registry get. Most people would see a much better performance increase adding an extra hard drive and running a two drive Raid 0 array (if the motherboard is set up for it) than by upgrading a one or two year old chip. (Also stay far away from ANY software which has the word "NORTON" on the box)

[Frobenius]

...Ahh.... that’s still all PC hardware, Intel Processor, Intel core logic chipset, Intel HD Audio, Intel based video. ...

Yes, you are of course correct - But, the box still says Macintosh :)

I used Macs exclusively from 1984 when they were introduced until 1995 when a 'real' windows-type O/S became available (Windows 95) - and because of the pressure of the quantity of Windows-only applications.

I miss the shear beauty and clarity of Macintosh and am seriously considering going through all of the headache of migrating back to Mac (not very simple in my case) especially after having wrestled with the POS Vista mess over the past couple of months.

[SunkenCiv]

It's all PC hardware, anyone could make a similar machine and would run just as fast.

I figured you'd want a piece of the action. ;')

[gjones77]

Make no mistake, I like Macs and can appreciate the aesthetics of OS X, I just can’t stand people that harp about how great they are and ignore their own flaws.

There are companies still making a fortune selling books on how to use a Mac (just check the computer section at Borders).

And as for Vista, I run it at home and have no issues, I was one of the first adopters and enjoy it, it seems the people who has the most issues with Vista are people who try to install drivers or applications that weren’t meant to run on Vista.

[ECM]

I’d like Vista a lot more if there wasn’t a performance *hit* when playing games...that’s just sloppy on MS’ part, period (I suppose you could attempt to blame NV or AMD for it but, at this point, that dog isn’t going to hunt.)

[ShadowAce]