I understand the motivation to stop using clock speed in marketing because there are multiple major brands now and equivalant chips won't usually have equivalent clock speeds - and of course the fact that Core2's clock speeds are much lower than the Pentium IVs they succeed - but at least it was simple for telling the damn things apart.
Oh, so the 700mhz is faster than the 600mhz? And two cores are better than one? Great! That makes sense!
Now it's all E5923QSL and F05050 and MJ420.
The whole AthlonXP 4000, 4200, 4500, etc. routine at least made some sense without throwing around the somewhat misleading clock number routine.
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I understand the motivation to stop using clock speed in marketing because there are multiple major brands now and equivalant chips won't usually have equivalent clock speeds - and of course the fact that Core2's clock speeds are much lower than the Pentium IVs they succeed - but at least it was simple for telling the damn things apart.
Oh, so the 700mhz is faster than the 600mhz? And two cores are better than one? Great! That makes sense!
Now it's all E5923QSL and F05050 and MJ420.
The whole AthlonXP 4000, 4200, 4500, etc. routine at least made some sense without throwing around the somewhat misleading clock number routine.