[Ti] A real world comparison

[Chris Olson]

On Jun 9, 2005, at 12:34 PM, Shawn King wrote:

> Your tests are irrelevant.

So are most benchmarks, but the marketing world has this uncanny 
ability to twist them into marketing tools using the "mine is bigger, 
harder, and longer than yours" method.  For years Intel deceived people 
by ramping clock speeds on cpu cores until they finally got the general 
populace educated to their way of thinking.  In reality, performance 
increases stopped corresponding with clock speed increases in a 1:1 
ratio long ago while core operating temperatures and heat dissipation 
increased expodentially.  You can easily heat a small room in your 
house with the P-IV processor that Apple is shipping in the dev boxes, 
for instance.

The general public knows nothing about cpu architectures, but they see 
numbers.  "Oh, a 1.5 GHz Celeron vs 1.2 GHz P-III.  "Celeron" sounds 
cooler and has bigger numbers associated with it, therefore the masses 
will think it's the better deal.

Meanwhile the Mac gets laughed at because it has smaller numbers.  
Those of us who use one know better.

This is exactly what happened with the G5 getting to 3.0 GHz.  It's all 
marketing.  Had nothing whatsoever to do with practicality.
--
Chris