> I understand that an i5 is better than an i3 and worse than an i7. That isn't always true. It's pushed by intel as a "handy reference" for specifications, w

> I understand that an i5 is better than an i3 and worse than an i7. That isn't always true. It's pushed by intel as a "handy reference" for specifications, when it's actually just a price bracket. Many noobs will see it as a three-level hierarchy and conclude that they need an i7 for their mundane office work, when a pentium would have sufficed. You gotta read and understand the specifications. AMD has an actually useful naming spec for their processors, unlike intel.