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Some specs are more important than others - eg battery life, weight, form factor and price. Nailing a placeholder product while you figure out the reinvention p

by dman 15y ago

Some specs are more important than others - eg battery life, weight, form factor and price. Nailing a placeholder product while you figure out the reinvention prevents you from losing by default. Also I would be interested to hear what strategy you think Intel should follow to stop a future arm+apple duopoly.

muhfuhkuh 15y ago
Honestly? It's time to dump the "win" part of wintel. Intel simply needs to face facts: The chasm between hardcore gamers and the general computer-buying public is so wide and yawning it may as well be on another planet. Yet that is still where Intel aims with its wintel strategy: More games than on Mac. I mean, seriously, WHO CARES at this point that I can run Crysis on my netbook? Here's a bold plan that will kill two birds with one stone: Buy Canonical, throw the bulk of your $300 Million at their development, poach/cajole/trade for every UX guru not employed by Apple, and create a killer Linux desktop OS to go along with that ultrabook. It will scream, it will run a battery all night long and beg for more, it will have no "hells" (.dll, dependency, driver, symbol, whatever "hell" is inherent in Windows and Linux), it will run a plethora of online apps and services, and it will host a complement of installed applications that take care of 95% of a mainstream consumers needs. No need to install flash, it's already there. Need to play an .mkv file? No problem when VLC is installed by default. Netflix on demand? At your fingertip. Amazon mp3 store embedded in banshee? Sure, why not? Writing a term paper or presentation? LibreOffice to the rescue.
- marshray 15y ago
  The thinking goes that, over time, specs of gaming PCs have been a leading indicator of where productivity PCs would be years later. More so than looking at the specs of PC servers.
- sid0 15y ago
  The probable 40-50 million on Steam alone is not really a number you can ignore.
  - X-Istence 15y ago
    It is for these Ultrabooks ...
    - sid0 15y ago
      No, it really isn't. There's a reason Intel's integrated graphics have improved so significantly with Sandy Bridge.
- sciurus 15y ago
  Intel is already developing a linux distribution in-house. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MeeGo http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MeeGo
chime 15y ago
Intel should make a single board that does it all. And offer it in 2-3 sizes/varieties. Dell can then just use the Intel Ultraboard and not have to worry about the hardware (CPU, GPU, RAM, Wifi, Ethernet, Audio, SSD, PCI/USB etc.) Let Dell worry about offering Pink and Magenta cases. Let Intel work with Microsoft closely so Windows 8 rocks on Ultraboard. There should be only one driver per Ultraboard and it should include the Chipset, Video, Audio, Network drivers. I never want to install Dell/HP/Asus drivers. Ever. They are all horrible across the board. Reinstalling Windows should not take more than 15 minutes, it should require no user-interaction, and it should leave the data partition alone. The data partition is where users images/photos/videos/music go. Intel should work with MS to ensure that executables do not run from this partition. If my mom downloads a virus, she shouldn't have to call me to fix it. Hardware DEP hasn't done much to stop viruses. Intel needs to come up with hardware features to remedy root-kits without my assistance. Intel thinks of itself as one of the hardware makers with competitors. It makes CPUs, like AMD or Samsung. It makes boards like MSI or ASUS. This is red ocean. It needs to make its own blue ocean and of all the companies in the PC industry, it is actually capable of doing that. Instead of offering $300m to others, it should put $3B into creating the single Ultraboard that any PC seller can build a case around and sell tens of millions of these. Dell can't do it. Sony can't do it. Intel can. Just like Apple did.

by dman 15y ago

muhfuhkuh 15y ago

Honestly? It's time to dump the "win" part of wintel. Intel simply needs to face facts: The chasm between hardcore gamers and the general computer-buying public is so wide and yawning it may as well be on another planet. Yet that is still where Intel aims with its wintel strategy: More games than on Mac. I mean, seriously, WHO CARES at this point that I can run Crysis on my netbook? Here's a bold plan that will kill two birds with one stone: Buy Canonical, throw the bulk of your $300 Million at their development, poach/cajole/trade for every UX guru not employed by Apple, and create a killer Linux desktop OS to go along with that ultrabook. It will scream, it will run a battery all night long and beg for more, it will have no "hells" (.dll, dependency, driver, symbol, whatever "hell" is inherent in Windows and Linux), it will run a plethora of online apps and services, and it will host a complement of installed applications that take care of 95% of a mainstream consumers needs. No need to install flash, it's already there. Need to play an .mkv file? No problem when VLC is installed by default. Netflix on demand? At your fingertip. Amazon mp3 store embedded in banshee? Sure, why not? Writing a term paper or presentation? LibreOffice to the rescue.

marshray 15y ago
The thinking goes that, over time, specs of gaming PCs have been a leading indicator of where productivity PCs would be years later. More so than looking at the specs of PC servers.
sid0 15y ago
The probable 40-50 million on Steam alone is not really a number you can ignore.
- X-Istence 15y ago
  It is for these Ultrabooks ...
  - sid0 15y ago
    No, it really isn't. There's a reason Intel's integrated graphics have improved so significantly with Sandy Bridge.
sciurus 15y ago
Intel is already developing a linux distribution in-house. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MeeGo http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MeeGo

chime 15y ago

Intel should make a single board that does it all. And offer it in 2-3 sizes/varieties. Dell can then just use the Intel Ultraboard and not have to worry about the hardware (CPU, GPU, RAM, Wifi, Ethernet, Audio, SSD, PCI/USB etc.) Let Dell worry about offering Pink and Magenta cases. Let Intel work with Microsoft closely so Windows 8 rocks on Ultraboard. There should be only one driver per Ultraboard and it should include the Chipset, Video, Audio, Network drivers. I never want to install Dell/HP/Asus drivers. Ever. They are all horrible across the board. Reinstalling Windows should not take more than 15 minutes, it should require no user-interaction, and it should leave the data partition alone. The data partition is where users images/photos/videos/music go. Intel should work with MS to ensure that executables do not run from this partition. If my mom downloads a virus, she shouldn't have to call me to fix it. Hardware DEP hasn't done much to stop viruses. Intel needs to come up with hardware features to remedy root-kits without my assistance. Intel thinks of itself as one of the hardware makers with competitors. It makes CPUs, like AMD or Samsung. It makes boards like MSI or ASUS. This is red ocean. It needs to make its own blue ocean and of all the companies in the PC industry, it is actually capable of doing that. Instead of offering $300m to others, it should put $3B into creating the single Ultraboard that any PC seller can build a case around and sell tens of millions of these. Dell can't do it. Sony can't do it. Intel can. Just like Apple did.