Hang on a second, Pradeep, I'll look it up. I don't have our total sales figures here but you can make a rough estimate by remembering that we sell enough Athlons and Durons to support two full-timers and two part-timers in reasonable comfort.
Yup, we seem to have sold ... er ... I have the exact number here ... yes, here it is. Exactly zero Pentium 4s.
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In fact I think I can give you pretty exact numbers for several of the other Intel chips over the past few years too.
Pentium III 1133 512k cache: 1
Pentium III 1133 256k cache: 2
Pentium III 1000: about 6
Pentium III 700 through 950: can't remember, maybe one or two.
Pentium III 666: 1
Pentium III 600EB: about 6 or 8
Pentium III slot versions: zero
Pentium II 300 through 450: nil
Pentium II 266: about 3
Pentium II 233: nil
And while I'm at it, some other sales duds:
VIA Cyrix III: 1
Celeron 266: 1 (well, we gave that thing away because it was so slow that we couldn't actualy sell it)
Celeron 300A through 433 or 500: quite a few - 30 or 50 maybe.
Pentium Pro: zero
That's not counting second-hand stuff or notebooks. Most of our notebooks over the past year or three have been Celerons.
BTW, I'm not actually prejudiced against Intel, I don't care what people buy so long as they buy it from me, but so far I have only had one client who had a particular set of needs (audio work) such that I recommended a P-4 to him. For the performance they deliver, they just can't cut the mustard.
Only today I spent the morning going over our price list wondering what to slot in between our entry-level system (Duron 1000, 256MB SDRAM, Epox KT133A main board) and our best-selling system (XP 1700, 256MB DDR, Epox or Soltek KT333).
There is $220 difference between the two, which is too big a jump. You have to have at least one, prefferably two systems slot in between those two. (Because, generally speaking, people will not upgrade themselves $200 worth at a time. You need to offer $50 to $100 steps. They wind up going with the best value in most cases anyway - the XP 1700 right now - but they need some gentle steps to justify it to their husbands or wives.)
We used to have a Duron 1200 DDR and a Thunderbird 1400 in between those two. Time to replace them.
I looked at Duron 1200 and 1300 chips. About $50 more, probably not worth the money. Hmmm.
I looked at putting a Duron 1200 on a DDR board with 256MB of PC-2100. A bit steep that - it costs ~$150 to do that, and it's still only a Duron 1200, and although it's easy to chip-upgrade moist people don't, and it seems a waste running all that lovely DDR at 200MHz.
And I looked at the Pentium 4 1600, which is much more attractive than it used to be now that it has 512k L2 cache and there are DDR boards to go with it. Epox have a new SiS chipset DDR P4 board that is quite cheap, and though I'm not a big SiS fan these days, as it's from Epox I'd trust it. I worked it out .... Came to more than the XP 1800.
I mean, how the f*ck do Intel expect people like me to sell their products if they go and do stupid things like that?
In the end I went with:
Duron 1000 (base model)
Duron 1200 DDR (+$150 odd)
XP 1600 SDRAM (+$150 odd)
XP 1700 DDR (+$220)
XP 1800 512MB DDR (+$450 or so)
and in the Intel ones I dropped the Pentium III 1133 (can't get stock anymore), went with:
1600 DDR (+$240 or so)
1800 DDR (+ lots)
But no-one will buy them.
The only Intel product anyone buys is their network cards.
