Fully agreed everywhere, thanks. There used to be a little more bragging about the enhancements up front in x86 land, but yes, a lot of it comes down to reverse

Fully agreed everywhere, thanks. There used to be a little more bragging about the enhancements up front in x86 land, but yes, a lot of it comes down to reverse engineering. The one place I'd redouble my scorn is that so many modern devices don't even list their chip, not even it's generation. Google in particular has been a major force in reducing the "tech specs" down to "Intel i5" or some-such preposterously useless "description". Is this a 10W part? A 35W part? What generation? How many cores? But absolutely. A huge amount of these details have, for a long time, been carefully tested for &- I lack a better term- reverse-engineered, from shipped devices. But historically we'd at least know, before purchasing, what core it was we were purchasing.