There is only one reason the P4-Prescott exists, not because it's better, not because it can compute more and not because it will beat AMD, but because Intel will be able to stick 5GHz on the outside of the PC and dumb Dell customers will think it's great. Since Intel ditched the P3,that has been and continues to be Intel's marketing strategy for the P4.
Right. Did you know that I have an uncle that sounds about that ignorant?
Never mind that: 1) <i>Intel</i> isn't advertising to end users. <i>Dell</i> is. And 2) Intel isn't even using clock speed to identify processors anymore. (But I bet Dell is.)
So your problem should be with <i>Dell</i>, the OEM, who advertises clock speed as the only important factor in the entire PC. It should not be with Intel, the parts manufacturer, who markets <i>much</i> more to OEMs like Dell than they ever do to any end users.
Intel do it for one reason alone, to claim they have the fastest CPU, and in pure MHz terms they do. But to my mind that is false advertizing and deliberate misleading of the general public.
You're really a zealot, aren't you? Have you ever heard the phrase: there's more than one way to skin a cat? High clock speed x low IPC = medium clock speed x medium IPC = low clock speed x high IPC. Just because Intel chose to skin the cat in a new way makes it no less effective. (Their lack of using SoI does, but that's another subject.) It has nothing to do with advertising. (Intel barely even advertises to end users.) It has everything to do with trying something new. There's nothing misleading about it.
And as for customers being misled, personally I think that anyone who doesn't research their purchase deserves what they get. I wouldn't buy a house without doing research. I wouldn't buy a car without doing research. Hell, I didn't even buy my last electric shaver without doing research. It's not hard. This is the Age of Information.
(Though personally I think this is more the Age of Broadband now, which is much like the Age of Information except that it garners a much new level of impatience in everything.)
So if Dell convinces the general public to spend money in a stupid way, it's only because the general public allowed themselves to be convinced by Dell's marketing alone. Would you hang on every word of a used car salesman? (Sorry, previously owned...)
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