>> when has Intel ever simplified the brands to make things easier?
Um, unless you're less than 15 years old, you should remember clearly...
There was that somewhat notable time after their fourth generation (fifth model) of processors with names the simplest of which was like 80486-66 or 80486-SX15 or 80486DX-50, to their fifth generation of processors, called simply:
Pentium
(so named supposedly because they couldn't trademark 80586)
That seems both simpler, a more recognizable model line, AND easier?
Subsequent lines also made sense (for a while):
Pentium MMX Pentium Pro Pentium II Pentium III Pentium 4
Then, it got confusing, sure, but for nearly a decade they had a good thing going with easy to understand simplification (my own opinion, for sure)
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>> when has Intel ever simplified the brands to make things easier?
Um, unless you're less than 15 years old, you should remember clearly...
There was that somewhat notable time after their fourth generation (fifth model) of processors with names the simplest of which was like 80486-66 or 80486-SX15 or 80486DX-50, to their fifth generation of processors, called simply:
Pentium
(so named supposedly because they couldn't trademark 80586)
That seems both simpler, a more recognizable model line, AND easier?
Subsequent lines also made sense (for a while):
Pentium MMX
Pentium Pro
Pentium II
Pentium III
Pentium 4
Then, it got confusing, sure, but for nearly a decade they had a good thing going with easy to understand simplification (my own opinion, for sure)