Now they've got all types of Core Duo's and all types of sticker colors. Even though most gadget/PC nuts understand them, the average buyer has no idea why they are spending $1500 on a laptop when all they want to do is use Microsoft Office.
I guess all these labels work real well for the employees of big box marts who want to confuse customers.
These labels and names and colors, as you so keenly pointed out, have little to do with performance indication.
They are the sole product of a marketing department, and marketing does nothing but sell product, and if they can sell you more product at higher prices then they will. Hence the confusing naming schemes. They don't care if you know what you are buying, as long as you buy it.
honestly i'd be happier if they just went with a single name and stopped changing it. say pentium 5,6,7,8, so on. and they tagged on the core number. for example [pentium 6 (dual,quad, w/e) x.xxGhz]. then all they have to change is the version number. yea i've been wanting this for years but no luck. my two cents.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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I miss the days when Intel kept things simple.
Pentium ----> Pentium 4
Now they've got all types of Core Duo's and all types of sticker colors. Even though most gadget/PC nuts understand them, the average buyer has no idea why they are spending $1500 on a laptop when all they want to do is use Microsoft Office.
I guess all these labels work real well for the employees of big box marts who want to confuse customers.
These labels and names and colors, as you so keenly pointed out, have little to do with performance indication.
They are the sole product of a marketing department, and marketing does nothing but sell product, and if they can sell you more product at higher prices then they will. Hence the confusing naming schemes. They don't care if you know what you are buying, as long as you buy it.
honestly i'd be happier if they just went with a single name and stopped changing it. say pentium 5,6,7,8, so on. and they tagged on the core number. for example [pentium 6 (dual,quad, w/e) x.xxGhz]. then all they have to change is the version number. yea i've been wanting this for years but no luck. my two cents.
aww
I still like intel better than AMD
but thats booring
Please get informed or get the hell out of the internet. kthxbai