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                Date: 1999-03-02
                 
                 
                Intel plant Pentium III Portal proprietär 
                
                 
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      Langsam wird klar, warum Intel aller Kritik zum Trotz an  
seinen Plänen festhält, User anhand der Prozessornummer  
zu identifizieren. Am anderen Ende der Welt laufen die ersten  
Tests für ein proprietäres PIII-Portal gerade an.   
 
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David Flynn 
INTEL is working with several Australian content providers to  
establish Web sites that are not only optimised for PCs  
based on the Pentium III processor but restricted to Pentium  
III machines. 
 
The program intends for each Web site to probe the PC and  
use the chip's Processor Serial Number (PSN) to identify a  
Pentium III client. 
 
[...] 
 
In both cases the common goal is to usher owners of a  
Pentium III into special pages where content such as  
streaming media, 3D interfaces and animation have been  
peak-tuned to suit Intel's latest powerhouse processor. 
 
[...] 
 
At the heart of the program is Intel's own Web Outfitter site. It is from here that users will be able to download browser plug-ins that Intel has had optimised for the Pentium III platform, and then click on links to thi 
rd-party sites that utilise those cutting-edge technologies. 
 
"The basic premise is that if you have a Pentium III-based PC your Internet experience will be greatly enhanced," says Lo Certo. 
 
[...] 
 
But the Web Outfitter scheme is not designed to persuade  
buyers to choose a machine with the Pentium III inside (just  
as well, considering that behind the big blue door is strictly  
"members only"). It is an after-sales benefit, designed to  
increase that vital post-sale satisfaction and reinforce the  
buyer's decision. "On our own site we're developing themes  
on various issues, like a magazine," says Lo Certo. "We  
want to broaden its appeal by making it a little bit like a long  
periodical magazine that changes its theme once every  
second month, and that theme is bought to life with added  
information. 
... 
 
Full text 
http://www.it.fairfax.com.au/990302/hardware/hardware3.html
                   
 
relayed by 
Martin Schmitt <martin@schmitt.li> 
 
 
 
 
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edited by Harkank 
published on: 1999-03-02 
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