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It's been said those are Ingram Micro's warehouses. And if you notice the dates are changing from 8-4 to 8-25. If today is the 8-4 where is the mass shipment?
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Nasty_Savage said:I have to say, this is the suckiest 'launch' i have seen in a long time. No boards, no chips. All horseshit.
dark_reign said:Well, you could always build a cheap X2 rig.
I might be a little more patient then most here. I'm still deciding on a case and PSU. The current motherboard selection isn't bad, but there's nothing real exciting about any of them. I'm still set on getting the E6600, but I may get the E6400 if availability of the E6600 is a problem or the price goes over $350. I can already see Newegg charging $400+ for it.
I think it might just be better to wait this one out another month to see how things pan out. I'd like to have something put together by early September, but that isn't going to happen if things don't improve.
sparks said:well what is really weird is they say they can make 27 million processors a quarter.
THEY have been talking this crap on conro since January. And they started final production
in april. SO 1+ quarter and 1 million chips..WTF this doesn't add up.
I believe there stories are getting a bit weak.
sparks
I ordered a E6400 mid-afternoon yesterday from ClubIT. Received a tracking number by 8 pm, and it was sent out by 8 am this morning.Donar said:Well I just got off the phone with the guys at ClubIT.
They said their shipment is coming in today or tomorrow and that they will 100% be shipping if not before, on monday.
tys90 said:I ordered a E6400 mid-afternoon yesterday from ClubIT. Received a tracking number by 8 pm, and it was sent out by 8 am this morning.
Blacklash said:My E6700 should be here today so I am set. I know it's on the FedEx truck.
Nitebane said:Our dist is showing 8/18-8/25 on one (e6600+) , and 8/11 on others (e6300-6400)
Looks mid-late August till the conroes will be widely avail. (e6600/e6700/x6800 at least)
Now for my rant, or whatever you wanna call it.
This is how im seeing things. Intel is giving Dell HP Falcon Alienware etc the 27th. The retailers that pay big money are getting the 7th to shine, and then the leftovers being the SMBs, and smaller Etailers (total gross), etc are getting the last of it week or two later.
Its too much a coincadince that Intel is telling people you cant ship till (X) date. They are giving each 'tier' of business there own time to shine before they are let loose to everyone (dists!).
Basically, once its on dists, itll be widespread everywhere. Thats the pt of dists, and Intel is obviously and purposely avoiding shipping to dists till everyone else has had their week of glory.
Fact - the cheapest prices for hardware are from the SMB's, and Etailer online sale sites.
Fact - the most expensive prices are from CompUSA, etc - These big company's are not gonna be bought from when any joe-scmoe can go online and buy it for 50$+ LESS then other people out there who are really spending the big bucks w/ companys, like Intel.
In the jist of all the craziness of shipping directly from intel to tons of diff locations, which isnt their norm - they might of had people on their books who have gone from big retail co to online co - and sent them to them, or have friends of friends at intel and so forth. Thats the only way I can see how some etailer sites that werent all that known till this launch, because of their popularity of having conroes available, all a sudden are known sites because of all us hardcore peeps trying to get our fix from just about anyone if the price is right to us. Because face it the biggest etailers out there are ZZF, NE, hands down, and wheres their stock?
This is a way to give back to their retail outlets who are not seeing good sales, because of people like us who make very low profit margins, but sell large qtys to make profit still.
Bottomline , we sell too cheap - other co's are pissed and Intel is saying its cool, you have exclusivity and those hardcore geeks are gonna jump on you guys because they cant get their fix anywhere else, no matter the price (to a degree, hell tho people still bought x6800s for 1400$! so who knows!)
So our time will shine the week after the retailers get their rapes in for all the overpriced hardware they sell due to conroes availabilty on the 7th to these places only.
WE, the little guys - will be out there selling this hardware cheap when they hit our dists! So hold on, and let Intel know that there preplanned way of forcing us to be raped by retail costs is not working, and we are holding fast, and waiting on the little guys to acutally give the consumers out there GOOD PRICES, AND GOOD SERVICE.
WATYF said:2) If Intel is doing this just to give preference to the "big guys", then how come I can't get this CPU at any of the "big guys"? The only B&M store I know of right now that you can get this at is MicroCenter...
WATYF said:Sure the OEMs are getting them, but no one's gonna run out and buy a Dell with a Core 2 Duo if they had previously planned on building their own Core 2 Duo just so they can get one a couple weeks earlier.
Poncho said:I think by "big guys" he meant Dell, HP, etc. I may be wrong though.
Actually... the people who drive this market will buy them from OEMs. The money is made in volume, not the "home builder." People that are planning to build their system will wait a bit longer to do so... since this group typically knows that Conroe is the best and they want the best. I would be a mistake, business wise, to saturate the retail market with CPUs while giving minimal product to the ones who deal in volume.. ie make the profits. It sucks for you guys... but that's the reality of business.
WATYF said:Actually, he was talking about the large "big-box" retailers, not the OEMs. He specifically mentioned Comp USA.
And I completely agree with you that Intel is more concerned with the OEMs, because most people just buy their PC from Dell (or whoever).. and that's fine. But the OP was posing a theory that Intel is holding out on the smaller distributors so that it could channel sales (of individual CPUs) to the larger retailers (i.e. Comp USA). This is the theory that I found questionable. Intel giving first dibs to the OEMs is not in question at all. That's a fact.
WATYF
And I don't disagree with that... Intel can give preference to OEM's and big box retailers however they want. My only curiosity was with whether or not that's actually happening with the big box retailers.Poncho said:My mistake... I didn't really read his post, just assumed. But really... it does even apply to the "big box" market. You give first priority to the people that can move quantity. Bobs 'puter shop can move the volume that CompUSA can.
I'm still kinda unclear on how there is "big box" special treatment on Intel's part. Like I said, the only B&M that I know of that has all the Core 2's is Microcenter (not exactly a huge player). Fry's only has 6300's and 6400's... but so does ZipZoomFly... Hell... ZZF had 6300's and 6400's the day of the "launch party" and plenty of people bought them.Nitebane said:Big co's LIKE compusa, honestly CompUSA doesnt seem to be in on this time around, but Frys, and Microstore, and other retail stores do. They couldnt of got them from dist because dist do not have them yet, (any of intel's official IPD dists!)
The pt i was trying to make is, if Intel wanted Conroe to launch smoothly and widely available after Dell, HP and the bigboys had their weeks to shine - then it would be on our dists today, hell yesterday. It's not. Then retail stores are saying Intel said cant ship to the 7th! Its quite obvious they are giving them to people in a ceritan order, w/ certain instructions. Our dists dont give us those kinda regulations, the manufacturer is doing it, in this case, Intel.
I promise you , you wont see a wide available selection of these in stock, at affordable prices untill AFTER the 15-18th. (This goes for e6600/e6700/x6800) I do expect to see the 6300,6400s come around next week - as they are showing avail at our dists next week.
Im just giving information that is not widely available out there, this information might be useful to some in there decision to buy now, or later - and for the pure reason of having the information needed to know whats going on at the major dists that Intel distribute widely from.