Computer Hardware: Enough with the flamboyant names, just show me what it can do!

[Hulk]

I?m really getting tired of all of these crazy names and acronyms that manufacturers feel that have to tag their new hardware with to get it to sell. Just run some benchmarks and get on with it. If you're selling a graphics chip or CPU it doesn't take a genus to know what benches to run if your product is REALLY that good. It seems as though over the past few years the improvements in a lot of hardware has really just been an improvement in the creativity of the name (or maybe not even that).

It's still the good old things; MHz, pipelines, texture units, and a few others other are the things that really matter when you put software to silicon.

Today it?s all based on ?when this comes out? or whatever. I guess I?m just getting frustrated when so many manufacturers are continually ?previewing? hardware without it even running! Or if it is running, not showing the potential future customer the important details of the demonstration.

 

[JellyBaby]

The fancy names, marketing acroymns and slogans aren't there to entice you but to entice Joe and Jane Q. Public. Companies know you'll continue to buy their products but the more lucrative mainstream market is not quite fully tapped yet. Joe and Jane like fancy names and slogans...they help make the decision for them.

The preview frenzy is designed to create news headlines and hype, to compete with other companies news headlines and hype.

You just have to look through the smoke and mirrors, go to sites you trust for straight talk, and make your own decision for what's right for you.