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Why do they have to shave a few bucks of BoM and jump through hoops explaining why their 8GB is equivalent to their 16GB. It’s like AMD saying our megahertz ar
by mc32 3y ago
Why do they have to shave a few bucks of BoM and jump through hoops explaining why their 8GB is equivalent to their 16GB.
It’s like AMD saying our megahertz are better than your megahertz. It may be true but people just look at standard numbers.
- lstodd 3y agoIn order to sell another 8G for $200 obviously. Like theregister puts it: > There's a reason why we used to refer to Apple as the Cupertino idiot-tax operation.
- abriosi 3y agoThat example is very actually very good one. It has been known for years that megahertz are a terrible metric to measure CPU performance. The peak of that discussion was during the launch of Pentium 4, where it was proven that the IPC was much worse when comparing to a previous Pentium even though it had a lot more the clock speed. Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_4 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_4 (Microarchitecture)
- rchaud 3y agoThe Apple version of "community-adjusted EBITDA"