ratirt You sound like you are humanizing Intel and thus go your analogy. More like positive or negative behavior towards other people coming back from being insane. Sure it is bad to jack up the price and sell it when there is not other choice. The thing is there is a choice.

From my standpoint, price cuts are positive and this one over 40% off is impressive. Intel is doing something positive because the prices are cut so that is good. Isn't it? You don't call people impressive for getting into a burning house either.

Impressive as an adjective can refer, to objects or an event, situation not just people like you describe it thus impressive price cut. Acknowledgment of the impressive actions taking place not giving a credit or seeing Intel as a credible one due to price cut because I don't care about the product.

Humanizing? No. Intel as a corporation is just as capable of acting - and thus acting in certain ways, with certain intentions - as any person. The ability to act is not something limited to only people. The issue with your logic is that your point of reference for whether the action is positive/impressive israther than a separate and more neutral-like point of reference (such as a general idea of sensible CPU price and price/perf development over time), which also has the side effect of being ahistorical and lacking in perspective. Subsequent actions are not separate, so lowering prices after first jacking them up is not, it is simply a correction of previous wrongdoing. You calling this "impressive" serves to erase the previous wrongdoing (as current actions are generally seen as more relevant and defining of character) which is a degree of slack I see no reason to cut Intel at this point. Hence my original analogy.a bad practiceis not, it is simply. There is a (big!) difference. The only context in which these price cuts are impressive is an utter lack of context. Thereason Intel did this isand are now seeing that it might be sensible to leave. You say there is a choice - yes, Intel made the choice to jack up HEDT CPU prices to entirely ridiculous levels for no reason beyond padding their own margins. They are thus responsible for those actions, and should be regarded as though those actions were intentional and thought-through. What you are arguing for is ignoring this entirely, and instead rewarding and praising them for no longer being complete assholes. The thing is: they still are - they have doneto earn the favor of consumers beyond. To earn consumer favor they need to go significantly beyond this - by undercutting AMD or otherwise delivering somethingthan what can be reasonably expected.