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Computer trademark names that are "long in the tooth"

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Scholzpdx said:
As said, not all americans sound the same.

Where i live (Pacific NW, US) there is really no accent at all. People from the south, texas, and the east coast have distinct accents.
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lololol

Of course you will perceive people who speak the same way that you do as having no accent. Cot-caught merger anyone?
 
Mr. Pedantic said:
I agree. Pentium needs to die. And so does Core. I think Radeon should go too. GeForce sounds kind of okay, it can stay.
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Radeon sounds better than Geforce.

Gotta remember that companies pump millions of dollars into these brands, retiring them isn't easy. Pentium, for example is synonymous with Intel. Not sure what the heck their marketing team was thinking with 'Core' though.
 
Bateluer said:
Radeon sounds better than Geforce.

Gotta remember that companies pump millions of dollars into these brands, retiring them isn't easy. Pentium, for example is synonymous with Intel. Not sure what the heck their marketing team was thinking with 'Core' though.
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I agree. Core is so fail now that they abandoned the Solo, Duo, and Quad suffixes. So you're telling me that a Core i3 doesn't have 3 cores? What about and i5? Some are dual cores and one is a quad core? The whole naming scheme just needs to be taken out back and shot.
 
Wang computers.

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It's cum to it's end, it's growth spurt long past; it's gone soft in the marketplace.
 
Rubycon said:
And what does Microsoft refer to again? 😉
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An idea so tiny and soft, it once ruled the ENTIRE business world and made a diminutive nerd with a really bad haircut one of the richest men who has ever lived.
 
Perknose said:
An idea so tiny and soft, it once ruled the ENTIRE business world and made a diminutive nerd with a really bad haircut one of the richest men who has ever lived.
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Back in the '70s the only people that used the word "software" were nerds! 😛
 
zinfamous said:
Am I the only one that is confused with what I'm seeing here?

:hmm:
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Having a "hard" time understanding?

C'mon, get on the universal serious bus with the rest of us and leave your Wang behind. It's a trademark name that got long in your tooth; it was never much more than a nerd word processor anyway. 😀
 
Back in the '70s the only people that used the word "software" were nerds!
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On a related note, why is it that Americans have such a great interest in putting down, abusing, and generally making miserable the lives of people who will one day be their employers and will own much more money than they?
 
They could call it the Hard Core Sextium. With two cores for double penetr... er, double the processing power?
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Core was such a stupid brand name. It was fine for Core 2 Duos, because, you know, the names matched up and everything. But then, they started introducing Core 2 Quads, and that started throwing everything off because it was no longer enough to say in ads and to people that the machine had a "Core 2 processor". Then they started tacking on "dual-core Pentium", "Pentium dual-core" (I still don't know if they're the same or not), etc. And then with Nehalem it gets even worse. Why does Core i7 have a 7? But that's stupid. Imagine trying to build a CPU with 7 cores natively; you'd get laughed at for building the world's first heptagonal processor. And since they're 4-core CPUs with Hyperthreading, why not Core i8? Isn't the most rational thing for people to assume when they hear "Core i7" to assume it has 7 cores? What about Core i5? How do they define the 'i5' segment? 4 threads? (Why not 5?) But then what about Hyperthreaded i3s? Turbo? Moreover, which models have a greater Turbo boost than others? Or what about the 750 against, say, the 661? 2 real and 2 HT cores, but plus an onboard GPU, versus 4 real cores and no HT cores, but at the same price? Which wins? Better CPU performance, or an onboard GPU? But don't 2 extra 'cores' mean double the performance? After all, it's at the same clock speed, and that's all that matters in a processor...right? And is that onboard GPU going to be enough for the Bejeweled and the HD video you want to play? SO MANY CHOICES!!! And next up, what about Core i3? Since we're going with the whole Megahertz Myth thing anyway, by saying computer X has a "2.66GHz processor" and saying computer Y has a "2.6GHz processor", even though computer X is a Core i7 920 that blows the pants off computer Y's Phenom X4 9950, aren't Core i3s faster and cheaper than some Core i5s, because they have a faster clock speed? And what thread count should these have anyway? 3? Or 2? Why do these have the same number of threads as the Core i5s?

*gasp*

\endrant

Man, I'm glad I've got that off my chest.
 
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lokiju said:
RAID is one I was thinking about just yesterday.

Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disk.

Even when RAID came around the disk were crazy expensive and at least on the enterprise side of things they're still much more expensive.
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You don't know what expensive means... they were referring to multiple drives is cheaper than 1 drive with same capacity.
 
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