Darn delays after delays are pissing me off!

When can I complete my build?!

According to some reports, Intel's "Q" series quad core chips are slowly being shipped. This code-named Yorkfield series of processors have been delayed since December last year. Yes, it has been an excruciating 4 months, especially for people like me who have been waiting for the bloody chips to hit the shelves. If it wasn't for this 'delay', I'll have my rig by now. Sighz...

Well, there are many reasons (or excuses) this delay. For one, some are saying that this is due to the lack of competitive pressure from its arch rival, AMD. I just love the good old days where both companies just battle it out and push their products' prices to record low ones. Competition is SO nice... Next up will be the incompatibility issues of the Yorkfield processors with various motherboards. Hmm.. This sounds kind of fishy. If the EXTREME EDITION of this series (the QX9650 to be precise) can indeed be released months earlier, I don't see why there are incompatible issues with the non-extreme ones which are also built on the same manufacturing process.

Worse still. Currently, these Yorkfields will be shipping in limited quantities for the time being. They will first be shipped into pre-built systems, so people who wish to pick one up for their custom PC are unfortunately, out of luck. Previously Intel promised that the Yorkfields are slated for release in Q1 2008. It's now the 29th of March for crying out loud! It seems like Intel is dragging it on till the final day of Q1 2008.

How disappointing
T'ang