PENTIUM 1 PENTIUM 2 PENTIUM III PENTIUM IV PENTIUM V PENTIUM VI PENTIUM VII...
Intel must have an entire seperate division working on these stupid names.
Whatever happened to that XIIVXI bullshit they started a year ago?
Now they've got a picture of 5 brains and if your computer sucks, you have 1 or 2 brains, but a good computer is 4 or 5 brains??????
All I can say is, you people out there planning to buy a computer better do lots of homework cause if you don't, Best Buy is so gonna take advantage of you.
What's more confusing is their gfx department. There has to be like 3 different lighting sources going on with that failed glassy-look attempt. It looks concave in some parts but raised+gloss in others. What???
On a side note, a lot of other news sources used a capital "i" which was so confusing since it's impossible to differ that from lowercase "L" in which case it would be the "el-seven".
Why the "i7"? A throwback, a tribute maybe. Those of us who cracked-open computers prior to the Pentium will remember seeing "i386" or "i486" on the CPU. "i" stood for "Intel", of course.
As for "WHY NOT PENTIUM NAEM!?", I'm personally glad to see that name gone. It implied 5th generation tech, the "586", which is long, long ago. Ya, the chips are related, but far more evolved. If you want to make that argument, why not i786?
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I am so confused. Just name then 1,2,3 ect. PLEASE!
Core i7, oh of course! It makes perfect sense!
/facepalm
There must be a reason to the i7 code name but seriously.... what does it means!
iNtel iNside Core i7. iSick of iLetters iN iNames of iThings. i yi yi yi yi.....
26 freak'n letters in the alphabet and they pick the most over used one since 1998.
How about:
PENTIUM 1
PENTIUM 2
PENTIUM III
PENTIUM IV
PENTIUM V
PENTIUM VI
PENTIUM VII...
Intel must have an entire seperate division working on these stupid names.
Whatever happened to that XIIVXI bullshit they started a year ago?
Now they've got a picture of 5 brains and if your computer sucks, you have 1 or 2 brains, but a good computer is 4 or 5 brains??????
All I can say is, you people out there planning to buy a computer better do lots of homework cause if you don't, Best Buy is so gonna take advantage of you.
Look you guys, it's not hard to figure out:
Pentium 4 - 4th Generation
Pentium D - 5th Generation
Core 2 - 6th Generation
Core i7 - 7th Generation
Now the "i" could either mean "integrated memory controller (IMC)," or maybe...just maybe, Apple has something to do with this.
But I honestly don't care about Nehalem / Westmere *skips*
I'm going straight from Core 2 Extreme QX9650 to Core i8. Sandy Bridge anyone?
I think it's more like
286
386
486
586 a.k.a. Pentium
686 a.k.a. Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Pentium III, Pentium M, Core, Core 2
786 a.k.a. Core i7
I don't know where the "i" comes in though...
they have some crazy looking gradients going on there.
what a crappy logo, fire that designer.
It's actually like this:
486, Pentium - 4th gen
Pentium - 5th gen (P5)
Pentium Pro/2/3/M/Core/2 - 6th gen (P6)
Pentium 4/D (P68)
Core i7 - 7th gen
Yeah they are ugly but it seems they're dropping the Duo, Quad, Octo, etc. and are going to be separating them by colors now.
Yeah, I think Pina has it right. That's what I came up with..
"i" is probably Intel. Technically their instruction sets are/were IA-32 and IA-64, so it's not unprecedented.
What's more confusing is their gfx department. There has to be like 3 different lighting sources going on with that failed glassy-look attempt. It looks concave in some parts but raised+gloss in others. What???
Actually... the "i" stands for intergrated graphics core. That's the big deal with these CPUs. Woo. Intergrated Graphics =S
Intel shouldn't need to cater to morons who can't figure out a branding. It ain't brain surgery. Hell its not even picking wax out of your ear/
Rejected Nehalem proposals:
iChip, iCPU, iProcessor, iNtel, iCore, iProcess.
On a side note, a lot of other news sources used a capital "i" which was so confusing since it's impossible to differ that from lowercase "L" in which case it would be the "el-seven".
"i" is for iteration. "i7" is the seventh iteration of the Pentium design. And expect the eighth iteration of the Pentium design to be "i8". Simple.
lol @ "Core 3 Trio Quad Duo Pro Extreme Edition"
Why the "i7"? A throwback, a tribute maybe. Those of us who cracked-open computers prior to the Pentium will remember seeing "i386" or "i486" on the CPU. "i" stood for "Intel", of course.
As for "WHY NOT PENTIUM NAEM!?", I'm personally glad to see that name gone. It implied 5th generation tech, the "586", which is long, long ago. Ya, the chips are related, but far more evolved. If you want to make that argument, why not i786?