How did Intel manage to sell so many of these things despite them being inferior to the competition in every way?

I ask the same about Pentium D.

>>106143510 (OP)
Intel was bribing Dell to not sell AMD

>>106143510 (OP)
I bought it because it had a higher ghz number.

>>106143579
This is some Rockefeller tier shit

>>106143579
That would explain the sheer number of Dell prebuilts with P4 and PD processors, but I do have a couple AMD Dell machines from that time. What was the specifics of this? Were they told to only sell a certain amount? Only sell AMD to certain people?

>>106143604
I bet you felt like a real sucker when you saw the performance, didn't you.

>>106143624
It played my games so I didn't care.

>>106143510 (OP)
Because corporate faggots demanded to buy Intel despite it being objectively shit.

>>106143510 (OP)
i remember the first time I heard someone say they had 3ghz processor I thought the guy made it up because the fastest I knew about was like 1400mhz
things moved so fast back then that no one knew what was going on and so bought on brand

>>106144357
Anyone who had any clue about anything knew that the claims of Intel and the premise of ShitBurst architecture of attaining ridiculous clock rates was completely ridiculous.

>>106143624
i didnt feel like a sucker when seeing the temps compared to amd housefire

>>106144531
Didn't the P4 run hotter than Athlon XP and 64 chips?

>>106143579
fpbp

>>106143510 (OP)
inferior?
they had metal caps

>>106144646
Absolutely. Pentium M-based chips were the only Intel ones of that era that ran at somewhat sane temperatures.

>>106144835
Northwood ran chill and had a HUGE OC headroom, don't condemn Pentium 4s just because of Prescott. And today's CPUs are furnaces by comparison anyway.

>>106143510 (OP)
Branding, that's the same reason why people kept buying Intel after zen architecture made their product technically inferior.