Apple MacBook lawsuit

Garp · 25-05-2007, 07:58

Sadly there never has been 'good old days'.
Skip back to the Pentium / K5 days and you had intel saying "133Mhz" and AMD saying "133+" because a K5-133 outperformed a P133. That confused people that don't understand what is occurring inside a processor from a technical perspective. Things got even more confusing when a 1.8Ghz AMD Athlon out performed a 2.4Ghz P4.. then we got the daft buggers of XP-2400 being advertised and lots of people then complaining to the shops that their "2400 Mhz chip was only running at 1800Mhz"

Graphics cards have always been advertised badly as long as I can remember.
Back before 3DFX and the first 3D cards it wasn't too bad, you just had to grapple your way through "True Color" "High Color" and the like. The moment 3D Cards came out everything got a lot more confusing and pretty much reached the state we're in now. I don't bother keeping up with the market to be honest. Instead whenever I find myself in a position of wanting to upgrade or needing to make a purchase, I start reading sites like anandtech and toms hardware to get an idea of what is and isn't good.

25-05-2007, 07:58	#9
Garp Preparing more tumbleweed Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Hawaii Posts: 6,038	Sadly there never has been 'good old days'. Skip back to the Pentium / K5 days and you had intel saying "133Mhz" and AMD saying "133+" because a K5-133 outperformed a P133. That confused people that don't understand what is occurring inside a processor from a technical perspective. Things got even more confusing when a 1.8Ghz AMD Athlon out performed a 2.4Ghz P4.. then we got the daft buggers of XP-2400 being advertised and lots of people then complaining to the shops that their "2400 Mhz chip was only running at 1800Mhz" Graphics cards have always been advertised badly as long as I can remember. Back before 3DFX and the first 3D cards it wasn't too bad, you just had to grapple your way through "True Color" "High Color" and the like. The moment 3D Cards came out everything got a lot more confusing and pretty much reached the state we're in now. I don't bother keeping up with the market to be honest. Instead whenever I find myself in a position of wanting to upgrade or needing to make a purchase, I start reading sites like anandtech and toms hardware to get an idea of what is and isn't good. __________________ Mal: Define "interesting"? Wash: "Oh, God, oh, God, we're all gonna die"?