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I miss the MHz wars. Yes, the MHz number was never a great measure of CPU performance but at least it meant something. i3, i5 and i7 mean whatever Intel wants t
by TorKlingberg 12y ago
I miss the MHz wars. Yes, the MHz number was never a great measure of CPU performance but at least it meant something. i3, i5 and i7 mean whatever Intel wants them to. The are also trademarked, so even if AMD has something equivalent to an i5 it is not obvious to consumers.
Of course pushing the clocking past 3 MHz didn't make sense technically, and we are not going back there. It just shows the power of a single number for consumers to compare.
- DanBC 12y agoThat turbo button was an oddity of the times and I'm glD we don't need anything like that now. The first version - used to slow your machine down so that software (mostly games) didn't run too fast - was bad enough but the later version - which did nothing but light an LED or change some numbers on some 7segment displays - was a really weird decision. It's tempting to recreate this as an app. Clearly label t as a joke but see if any reviewers claim it works.