Well, 1st of all, current coding for games and day to day tasks weren't yet concerning the capacity of Intel's stream Core 2 or Core 2 Quad and a lot of consumer's knew that there organization didn't require an promote. Sure if they promote, they would have a quicker organization, but would it be noticeable? And would the cost difference be actually worth it?

And that contributes me to the following point and that would be cost. To promote to a Core i7 organization, you would have to purchase a CPU, then buy the expensive X58 CPU board which in turn cost about 80-90% of the price of the cheapest i7 Nehalem useable. Then to top it all off, you would have to buy a triple channel DDR3 kit which at the time were not cheap.

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Even if you were just becoming to upgrade to a i7-920 based organization which even to the day is and was the cheapest option, For the enthusiasts that require the most recent technology, they screamed "HELL YEA!", but the mainstream consumer roared " HELL NO!".

Considering the mainstream is the bread and butter of Intel's desktop market, approximately matters required to be addressed and exchanged. But the 1 thing that exchanged matters in my mind was the drop in the economy that Intel had no idea was coming. The Core i7 Nehalem launched in the recession's infancy and was swamped by the perfect storm.