“Corporate buyers of notebooks from Dell and HP are fuming that people can buy Duo Core machines from Apple now, while they will have to wait for weeks for Yonah based notebooks,” The Inquirer reports. “Last week, at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Intel CEO Paul Otellini wheeled on Michael Dell, from Dell, to solicit his support for the Yonah chips. Michael Dell endorsed the microprocessors but must have known at the time that the real action would be at Macworld, where Steve Jobs announced that Apple machines using Yonah chips were ready to order, now.”
The Inquirer reports, “One major corporate buyer told the INQ: ‘Am I the only IT person who finds it odd that Intel’s favourite brand has not introduced or announced Core Duo Latitudes and Inspirons? I am ready to begin purchases for 2006 and would love to be able to get my hands on these, but they don’t exist. I don’t recall Dell ever missing a new CPU launch from Intel.'”
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews reader “macnut222” for the link.]
MacDailyNews Take: Corporate IT types are the ones who picked cheap over better in the first place and consigned the majority of the world to decades of computing mediocrity with dull little boxes. Have a nice wait. To kill the time, surely you have some nice Windows patches to patch patches you patched last week after the previous patch broke the patch you patched that didn’t fix the original patch you patched, right? Or some anti-virus software to install, update, and run, perhaps? Spyware to clean? Registries to tweak? The usual hard drive wipes and fresh Windows installs? Windows IE-only, Active-X-requiring websites to develop and WIndows-only software applications to buy, so that you can say “Macs aren’t ready for business,” when really it’s “your business that isn’t ready for Mac,” thanks to your little job insurance schemes? All of these things will take some time. Why not have a look at some Windows Metafile images while you wait? You guys are experts at wasting people’s time, you’ll think of something.
Macintosh. Because you’re too smart and life’s too short.
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That’s odd, because I distinctly remember Dell being a bit tardy in supporting Itanium II.
Amen Bubba!
For the Mac community, this probably feels like retribution from the insults IBM delivered to Apple by never realizing the mobile G5 processor, then giving Microsoft a 3GHz PowerPC while Apple got moderate speed bumps.
I for one hope Apple and Intel will continue their partnership in including the latest and greatest hardware in future Macs.
MW word: “them apples”
Nice comment MDN Editor.
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I can’t wait to get my hands on one of those new Mac laptops.
You go, MDN!
Lets hope Apple starts to ship in BIG volumes then.
Old Stevie boy must have had the RDF turned to high to pull that one off.
Maybe Apple had a larger hand in the chip design then Windoz people are willing to admit. They just got caught with their pants down.
Perhaps Intel has had enough of Dell running its mouth in the press about switching to AMD.
If you read the article and follow the first thread at the bottom, it appears that Dell and HP are not happy with Intel and Apple. Dell has been talking AMD. Well, how about Intel labelled laptops with the help of Apple?
This could be a once-off launch in Apple’s favor in light of the move to Intel CPUs (new buddy-buddy relationship cementing sort of thing.)
Or, it could be that Dull and HP are going to ship about 20 million machines and Apple’s order was a comparatively small one.
Or it was the launch which evidently will have a biggest splashy impact for Intel. Considering the press over the last few days, Intel chose the right horse if that was the case. When was the last time the press went ape over a new PC notebook??
Or it might be that Intel wanted to first see a decent computer built around its chips instead of some butt-ugly Uninspiron or N2Zv65 type model (pulled that out of my ass, which I think is where all these PC product numbers come from… although not necessarily my ass in particular.)
No matter what, suffer in yer jocks Dull & H.P.
Actually Apple is playing guiena pig with the iMactels, also there isn’t enough Core Duo’s to go around for the likes of Dell and HP yet.
And another thing, we can only pre-order Mactel laptops, they are not shipping yet.
So the corporate Microsoft a$$ kissing world can BLOW ME.
It seems like Intel wants a showcase for their tech, so now they have one. Goood times.
The corporate IT types can go f*ck themselves. They’ll get their new chips so they can execute viruses and spyware even faster soon enough anyway.
I doubt the accuracy of the original story. Apple isn’t shipping any Intel notebooks yet, so we’ll have to wait and see if they beat Dell or anyone else to the market next month with a Yonah notebook.
They are shipping a desktop Yonah, which is great and all, but nothing really special. The Yonah isn’t faster than the Pentium D’s that Dell is already shipping in their desktops, it’s just (much) lower power.
So I don’t know why anyone would be upset. If Apple actually beats Dell, HP, or Gateway to a shipping laptop, we’ll see. But that hasn’t happened yet.
The article is complaining that buyers of HP, DELL et al. notebooks can’t go out and buy their Core Duo based systems, and probably won’t be able to get them until February.
Well. Neither can we. We can preorder MacBook Pro machines, but they won’t ship until February. These people seem to be complaining that they can’t preorder their machines – has Dell ever allowed a preorder system on new laptops to go ahead? Has HP?
This article is relatively pointless. They are complaining about an issue that doesn’t exist. Noone will have a Core Duo based notebook until February, Apple or otherwise.
If they were complaining about the iMac CoreDuo, I could understand their complaint. But in a notebook context? Eh.
~A~
Well if HP wasn’t so busy buying up AMD CPU’s maybe they could have been first in line like Apple.
Looking over some other sites, I would agree that there is probably a constraint on the Core Duo chips. Heck, Apple will be lucky to get the new MBPs and iMacs out the door in a timely manner. (Have they ever had a smooth rollout?)
These whiny corporate IT folks are overlooking some major points: picking up viruses and spyware 4-5 time faster! And has Windoze been tweaked to handle the new chips?
Dip into the R&D funds whiners and pick up one of these babies running OS X and start playing with it. You may be surprised!
I thought I smelled something burning.
Corporate Microsoft bootlicking sons of 5itches can ki$$ my $m377y @ss
These “I.T. Nazis” should start getting used to Macintosh envy. ‘Cause it’s going to get much worse.
Rock on SJ!
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SJR said: “The corporate IT types can go f*ck themselves. They’ll get their new chips so they can execute viruses and spyware even faster soon enough anyway.”
MDN Magic Word: “certain”
They certainly can go fsk themselves – bastards
Well I’m a corporate IT guy and we want Dell to switch to AMD – better technology. Intel can take its on-chip DRM somewhere else.
And to all you Mac losers that hate us – the feeling is _more_ than mutual
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But there’s one difference between us and you – we can make your lives miserable and you can’t do a thing about it.
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And we even get paid for it!!!
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA …
I am truly EVIL 😎
How much did those losers contribute to the final product in their machines? Did they go thorugh a massive amount of work with Intel in the past six months?
Oh, and Sorry Intel to make fun of your other cusomters. It was just a joke.
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Is this IT guy an idiot? After Dell announced at CES that it was going to put Yonahs in their laptops, I went to Dell’s website, and priced an Inspiron 9300. Yes, a Core Duo Inspiron. It was $2000 in its base config, and about $2592, when I spec’d it closer to what the MacBook has. The ship date was Feb 16. I don’t know what this guy was smoking but it is there.
Having said that, it is interesting that the first shipping Yonahs, in the iMac, are Apple products. You would think Dell or HP would be first, but then again, Apple is putting a notebook chip in a desktop, and perhaps Dell and HP were waiting for the desktop versions of Yonah.
Hey, Evil_MS_User,
I got news for you. I can put 20 calls into the support desk about the crap that goes on with my PC. And you have to follow up on them. And I can complain about how I don’t get good support, and you’ll lose your job. So shut up and make a good choice for once and stop sticking us with boring little gray boxes that can only do boring little gray jobs.
Bozo