Re: Just get some easy names
Intel have:
i3 for just Web folk
i5 for people who run office
i7 for people who need full power
That's rather too simplistic ... and what about "Pentium" and Celeron and Atom?
It's nice to know, though, that "i3" means two cores and Hyperthreading, "i5" means four cores, and "i7" means four cores and Hyperthreading ... except in the case of mobile processors which all have two cores and Hyperthreading ... except when they don't!
I agree that AMD need some cuddly names -- what happened to "Sempron", "Athlon" and "Opteron" ... meaningless, but at least they kept it easy by only having three ... oh, and "Duron" and "Turion" and "Phenom" ... maybe it wasn't so simple after all?
Maybe there are just too many CPU types?
ARM, anyone?
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