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Intel Plans CPU Naming Change
Jemm writes "According to The Globe and Mail, Intel will start using performance numbers rather than clock speed to number their chips. 'Under the model number system, processors will be given numbers to describe their performance, in addition to being described as running at 2GHz or other speed.'"
Why the hell is this flamebait? It's a valid point that Intel's reliance on clockspeed, with no mention of instructions per cycle is effectively a form of lying.
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What exactly is a "suicide girl"? Does that mean she's already dead? I'm not into that kind of stuff, you know...
The better joke is that this got modded informative, damn moderators.
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How could I say to men: "Speak louder, shout! For I am deaf!"? -Ludwig van Beethoven
Yup, and fries too.
My next machine's gonna be a nice, quiet and cool-running Mini-ITX. No fan, and a whopping 600 MHz of see-pee-yew! ;-) And hey, guess what... taht little box plays MP3 and OGG files and stuff, and even MPlayer works if you don't crank the resolution to 1280x1024@32bit. And the board+chip only cost ~ $130 (USD) and that's a sweeeeeeet fucking deal man.
No really, I don't need any faster chips. I already tried the old 533 MHz version and it fullfills all my needs. And I imagine that many other desktop users don't need much more speed either. I'm not talking about hardcore gamerz or make-buildworld dudez. I'm talking mom and pop "gonna check my email" type people. And people like me, who mainly use console applications in Debian.
And hey, did I mention the servers I manage only have dual 400 MHz pII's? And guess what man, that shit runs sweeeet still after all those years. Course they don't serve as many hits as slahsdot, but guess what... most sites don't! You know what I'm saying?
BTW, what's up with this: 1897 replies beneath your current threshold. Somebody set up us the bomb?
I can fell the LOVE!
I just wanted to tack on another pointless post to this story to get see about pushing this up into Slashdot's top three stories (by postcount). I can't really see why this story's generating so much feedback since it's such an obvious thing to do. There's only so many threads about "benchmarks lie" and "AMD/Apple did it first" you can have without some major redundancy.
At first I suspected some major troll action but it looks to me like they're mostly legit posts. Very odd.
my sig's at the bottom of the page.
and then I get modded Insightful, this is F$@#ing great!
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ABB? ABB??!! Really? ANYBODY?! How about Ralph Nader?
Yes, ANYBODY. What part of ANYBODY don't you understand? For god's sake, let's get mussolini in there, it'll be an improvement.
I've had this sig for three days.
Ah... I was wondering why this article had 3000+ comments (but was too lazy to switch to a -1 view and deal with /.'s dumb-as-a-post pagination).
Wolde you bothe eate your cake, and have your cake?
Yeah, I could do it at least 10 times per night, but thank god I've got spermal throtteling to protect me from exhaustion after doing it once!
really. . .
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