mesiah

August 20, 2009 at 11:20pm

It's a matter of cost and warehousing space. In order to meet large demand they have to have a stockpile of parts. Companies only have so much space and budget for storing parts, its much more cost effective to ship them to retailers and let them deal with storage. Then when the release date comes you don't have to worry about the logistics of trying to ship all that product at once. This is common practice for alot of industries, and just like when a retailer decides to say.... start selling the PS3 a week before everyone else, the manufacturer is going to get pissed, but there isn't much they can do about it excpet threaten to pull their product.

MeTo

August 20, 2009 at 9:09pm

Intel it's simple if you don't want something sold early don't sell it to some one else early. I hate it when they advertise something for sale and you have to wait till the release date.

pratt

August 20, 2009 at 12:13pm

I walked into a local Frys about a week ago to pick up some RAM for an i7 build I was doing and I was surprised to see a Core i5 listed for sale in the actual store where they have all the processors advertised.

I talked to them and yes, they were in stock and if I wanted to, I could have walked out with an i5 that day...except for the fact that I didn't want or need one. Needless to say, I don't blame stores like Fry's getting tired of waiting for Intel's go-ahead when sales of the older C2Q's are slowing down in anticipation of the i5's and i7's.