"Raptor Lake" isn't an internal codename, it's very much external as it's what Intel actively referred to that generation as. How's a non-geek shopping for a PC

"Raptor Lake" isn't an internal codename, it's very much external as it's what Intel actively referred to that generation as. How's a non-geek shopping for a PC going to know if it's better or worse than "Lunar Lake" or "Alder Lake"? Maybe they just think their machine is shipping with some game where your giant dinosaur bird thing has to stop off for a quick drink to regain energy. But in any case, this isn't the real travesty with these names. It's that they're reusing existing common words. The article hates on "google" when actually it's a fantastic name - if you googled it when it was introduced, all the results were about what you wanted. By comparison, Alphabet is an awful name, because if you search for Alphabet only a tiny subset of the results are going to be useful to you.