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Mis-labelled Processors on OCUK

Energize said:
I don't know what Intel were thinking either. Customer sees Pentium written on the new computer that they are looking at, thinks "Pentium is old crap". Customer then looks at e4xx c2d computers and thinks "these cost too much". Then customer sees Athlon 64 X2 computers and thinks "I know these are better than Pentium and I can afford one". And walks out of the shop with one. Losing Intel sales.
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I guess it would have made more sence if intel had called the bargain basement processor Pentium V instead of Pentium Dual Core. Sure pentium IV wasnt Intels greatest achievement, but a lot of the general public still believe that Intel Inside is best, and dont have a clue about Athlon X2.

A large percentage of the people who know that the Athlon X2's were(are) pretty good chips are fairly likely to understand that the E2xxx pentiums are just rebadged Allendale/Conroe processors with some of the cache disabled, and a reduced FSB.

Personally I would have stuck with the Pentium name instead of Core Duo, which imho is a very 'weak' name. A few TV adds would have been enough to explain that P5 was twice as fast as P4 would have gotten the message across.
 
Energize, I think you are gifting Joe Public with too much IT thinking capacity! :D

JP sees 2 PCs
JP doesn't recognise AMD X2 Socket AM2 3800
JP recognises Pentium
JP purchases Intel computer
 
melbourne720 said:
Energize, I think you are gifting Joe Public with too much IT thinking capacity! :D

JP sees 2 PCs
JP doesn't recognise AMD X2 Socket AM2 3800
JP recognises Pentium
JP purchases Intel computer
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More likely Joe Public just buys the cheapest one!!! :)
 
Okay, TV add for a 'Pentium 5'

Two people in a race, one gets the obvious lead, he is wearing a P4 logo shirt. The camera then zooms back down the track long enough for the viewer to realise that the other fellow isn't on the track any more. The camera makes a sharp turn and you see the guy making out with the 'winner's girlfriend.

Then the words come up, 'Pentium V, it doesn't need to go fast to win'
 
It would be better and more fitting with todays eco-mad society if the P4 was just a picture of a coal power station, on fire, surrounded by dead kittens.
The Core2 could just be a picture of someone running iTunes with a smile on their face... (Maybe a thumbs up and them also holding a meter showing how much power the CPU was using...) That's the sort of cheese filled advert I could trust.
 
Maybe Im being pedantic here - but surely whatever the designer/manufacturer calls it HAS to be correct (even if technically its similar to another brand name)

Whether a Pentium Dual Core is really a C2D by any other name is neither here nor there, if a certain spec is released as P D C then really thats all it should be called.

imo
 
What the guy is saying is that to somebody less in the know, it could be misleading. Like an FX 5200 with 512m of VRam or reading the product info for a GeForce 8400 GS (GeForce 8 series GPUs deliver unprecedented performance, extraordinarily detailed environments, and film quality game effects).
 
Maybe Im being pedantic here - but surely whatever the designer/manufacturer calls it HAS to be correct (even if technically its similar to another brand name)
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Pretty much correct.

It doesnt help for the web really but the retail box has a little sticker on it showing the performance increase over the old gerneration Pentium chips.
 
The box also comes with a sticker with sort of a dual core logo and the pentium logo :D I always used to want to put those stickers on but somehow somethings stops me with this one :D
 
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