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Ten Lies About Microprocessors
cloudkj writes "Processor selection too often turns into a religious war. Debunking the dominant myths is the first step towards making a rational choice. Embedded.com has an article highlighting the 10 most common lies and misconceptions about microprocessors."
10. Tin foil helmets will protect us from rays and mind-control particles from microprocessors.
9. Intel from Mars, PPC from Venus
8. No, Porky Pig did not give the PPC its name when he tried to say "PC".
7. Celeron was not named after Celery
6. Go ahead, you can buy a Pentium 3 without worrying that the Blue Man Group will knock on your door and bore you to tears with their post-modern Bolian-hued Mummenschanz antics.
5. "It's a chip, does this mean I can eat it if I dip it in bean dip?"
4. "I paid $2,000 for this screamer back in 1987. It will blow the socks off anything you will put up against it"
3. "Mine's bigger than yours"
2. "Intel Inside"? Consider that label to be a warning.
1. "Get me a microscope. I'm going to open up my PC and look at my micro-processor.
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
1. I don't want the latest processor
2. I am perfectly happy with the one I have.
3. Having a faster CPU would make me more productive.
4. I bought the cheapest one because I want to support the underdog.
5. Noisy CPU fans don't really bother me.
6. If I get the most expensive one, I won't have to upgrade for a long time.
7. My life is so much better now that I have CPU x.
8. I don't envy you your brand new CPU, because mine has a years long proven track record.
9. Nobody will ever need a 64bit CPU for home use.
10. I only read newsgroups for the articles.
-- The morphemes of your disquisition are ascertainable, but they have eschewed an ambit of transpicuous exposition.
What about Quake3 FPS benchmarks. OMG! *everyone* knows that only the Q3 benchmark can prove with processor is better. To say otherwise is blasphemy!
Life is not for the lazy.
Very uninteresting comment.