Intel, OEMs Face Lawsuit For Megahertz Marketing

prostoalex writes "A group of PC owners filed a lawsuit against Intel, Gateway and HP, stating that companies spread misleading information about Pentium 4 processor performing faster than Pentium 3 or Athlon. The complaint alleges that 'the Pentium 4 is less powerful and slower than the Pentium III and/or the AMD Athlon.' PC World has more details in its story." I wonder if the same litigants have a suit against the USPS for ads leading one to expect prompt service from courteous, competent employees.

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Re:They have a point

[stuuf]

a 933 pentium III running windows ME runs much slower than 350 pentium II with win98!

How about Apple?

[jchristopher]

If Intel can be sued, how about Apple? I hate the way they constantly call the G3/G4 "twice as fast as PCs" of the same clockspeed. This is a blatant lie as anyone who has used a recent Mac can confirm.

Running OS X, it takes about double the clock on the Mac side to equal the speed of Windows 2000 on a PC. (Thus, it takes a Mac at 1ghz to run OS X as fast as a 500mhz PIII runs Windows 2000). This is the exact opposite of Apple's claims.

It really is not fair to the consumer, especially the more novice-type users who tend to buy Macs. I recently visited my family who has two Macs, and they could not believe how fast web browsing was on my wintel laptop. Keep in mind my laptop is about 2 years old!

Bullshite. If someone "doesn't have the time to...

[BoomerSooner]

do the research" on their 3rd most expensive purchase they will make, then fsck them. This is the same as the idiots who buy POS quick and cheap houses then dont understand why their house is falling apart after 10 years.

If your too stupid or lazy to research anything you're going to buy that costs over $500 then you (they) get what you (they) deserve.