Intel branding works too well

[ViviTheMage]

I have a centrino

 

[dullard]

BobDaMenkey has finally reached the computer nerd low: debating over a brand name. Don't worry, Bob, it only gets better from here on out.

 

[AnyMal]

Originally posted by: BobDaMenkey
It really gets on my nerves when someone puts a laptop up for sale, or in their sig and says that they have a Centrino processor.

THERE IS NO THING AS A CENTRINO PROCESSOR.

Centrino is Intels brand of mobile solutions. A laptop is allowed to be called a Centrino laptop only when it has a combination of an intel mobile processor, an intel chipset and an intel wireless solution.

The technicality: Centrino only accepts certain kinds of processors, mine is one of those, so it's a centrino processor.

Yes and no. You have a Pentium Mobile, or a Celeron Mobile, or a Core Duo or a Core 2 Duo, you do not have a "Centrino" processor. It can be classified as such, but you can and should be more speicific about it.

I do not have a 1.73ghz Centrino processor. I have a 1.73ghz Pentium M. Please people, make the distinction. Especially if you're trying to show it off or sell it.

Who gives a flying....

 

[BobDaMenkey]

Originally posted by: Fingolfin269
That actually gets on your nerves?

Yeah. I'm pricing out different ultra-portable laptops, and if I don't know what kind of processor it actually has, I can't properly compare it to something else, or know what kind of power consumption it'll have.

And I work at a GNC. If you start mixing terms because they are 'similar' you can start screwing your body up real bad.

"What's the difference between creatine and protien? You just need one or the other right? I mean you take them after your work out, so you only need one right?"

 

[spikespiegal]

And being an informed buyer and not being able to get the right info from the seller because they don't know what they have.

Like not being able to distinguish between mobile and desktop Core 2 Duos, or having an Intel based Mac and still insisting it's not a PC?

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

Originally posted by: CVSiN

Originally posted by: BobDaMenkey
It really gets on my nerves when someone puts a laptop up for sale, or in their sig and says that they have a Centrino processor.

THERE IS NO THING AS A CENTRINO PROCESSOR.

Centrino is Intels brand of mobile solutions. A laptop is allowed to be called a Centrino laptop only when it has a combination of an intel mobile processor, an intel chipset and an intel wireless solution.

The technicality: Centrino only accepts certain kinds of processors, mine is one of those, so it's a centrino processor.

Yes and no. You have a Pentium Mobile, or a Celeron Mobile, or a Core Duo or a Core 2 Duo, you do not have a "Centrino" processor. It can be classified as such, but you can and should be more speicific about it.

I do not have a 1.73ghz Centrino processor. I have a 1.73ghz Pentium M. Please people, make the distinction. Especially if you're trying to show it off or sell it.

Exactly why I stick with AMD...

lol, ok, so you pick a processor because of the name and what other people call it? Maybe it's just me, but that sounds like a fanboy comment

 

[Thraxen]

Originally posted by: nakedfrog
While we're at it... Coke is Coke.
Sprite is not Coke. Root beer is not Coke. Pepsi is most certainly not Coke. Knock it off!

Oh, but Sprite is Coke in the same way Mt. Dew is Pepsi.

 

[Alex]

Originally posted by: supafly
I was looking at Core 2 Duo laptops on ebay.. several sellers are calling them "Intel Pentium Core 2 Duo" processors.

Oh, and some of them came with "Windows Office 2003"

nice :laugh:

 

[Raduque]

Originally posted by: nakedfrog
While we're at it... Coke is Coke.
Sprite is not Coke. Root beer is not Coke. Pepsi is most certainly not Coke. Knock it off!

Yea, it's sad. I have family that still refer to all consoles as "Nintendos". My aunt came over to my apartment one day, saw my 360 and said "what a pretty white nintendo"

 

[brandonbull]

Originally posted by: BobDaMenkey
It really gets on my nerves when someone puts a laptop up for sale, or in their sig and says that they have a Centrino processor.

THERE IS NO THING AS A CENTRINO PROCESSOR.
Centrino is Intels brand of mobile solutions. A laptop is allowed to be called a Centrino laptop only when it has a combination of an intel mobile processor, an intel chipset and an intel wireless solution.

The technicality: Centrino only accepts certain kinds of processors, mine is one of those, so it's a centrino processor.

Yes and no. You have a Pentium Mobile, or a Celeron Mobile, or a Core Duo or a Core 2 Duo, you do not have a "Centrino" processor. It can be classified as such, but you can and should be more speicific about it.

I do not have a 1.73ghz Centrino processor. I have a 1.73ghz Pentium M. Please people, make the distinction. Especially if you're trying to show it off or sell it.

 

[Fritzo]

I have a Pentium-Mmmmmm It's faster, and it tastes better.

 

[JS80]

they should have stuck with Pentium 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, etc

 

[BobDaMenkey]

Originally posted by: brandonbull

That's the logic people use to call it a centrino processor. It's not the logic I use.

 

[0roo0roo]

tech heads like atoters know centrino. but i can see how others owuld think it were a processor. intels commercials sucked that way

 

[49erinnc]

Originally posted by: BobDaMenkey
It really gets on my nerves when someone puts a laptop up for sale, or in their sig and says that they have a Centrino processor.

THERE IS NO THING AS A CENTRINO PROCESSOR.

Centrino is Intels brand of mobile solutions. A laptop is allowed to be called a Centrino laptop only when it has a combination of an intel mobile processor, an intel chipset and an intel wireless solution.

The technicality: Centrino only accepts certain kinds of processors, mine is one of those, so it's a centrino processor.

Yes and no. You have a Pentium Mobile, or a Celeron Mobile, or a Core Duo or a Core 2 Duo, you do not have a "Centrino" processor. It can be classified as such, but you can and should be more speicific about it.

I do not have a 1.73ghz Centrino processor. I have a 1.73ghz Pentium M. Please people, make the distinction. Especially if you're trying to show it off or sell it.

Klonopin FTW

 

[dainthomas]

Originally posted by: Raduque

Originally posted by: nakedfrog
While we're at it... Coke is Coke.
Sprite is not Coke. Root beer is not Coke. Pepsi is most certainly not Coke. Knock it off!

Yea, it's sad. I have family that still refer to all consoles as "Nintendos". My aunt came over to my apartment one day, saw my 360 and said "what a pretty white nintendo"

Maybe she thought it was a Wii.

 

[Theguynextdoor]

Try selling them everyday to people that believe that and you have my job.

 

[MX2]

Jeez, and just imagine all the things that really do matter

 

[Baked]

THERE IS NO THING AS A CENTRINO PROCESSOR.

In English please.

 

[Raduque]

Originally posted by: dainthomas

Originally posted by: Raduque

Originally posted by: nakedfrog
While we're at it... Coke is Coke.
Sprite is not Coke. Root beer is not Coke. Pepsi is most certainly not Coke. Knock it off!

Yea, it's sad. I have family that still refer to all consoles as "Nintendos". My aunt came over to my apartment one day, saw my 360 and said "what a pretty white nintendo"

Maybe she thought it was a Wii.

lol, Nah it was way earlier this year, like may.

 

[snes tor]

So are you saying you want to buy my Centrino Processor? I have two!

 

[Shawn]

my next laptop is going to have a centrino processor

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: Shawn
my next laptop is going to have a centrino processor

mine will too.

Simply out of spite.

 

[Mermaidman]

And this affects you how?

 

[miri]

one of my wifes friends husband works at intel

my wife thought it was a telephone company