Comments for: Intel's Core 2 Duo to drop its 'Duo'

# Yeah, and those Pentium II processors cost $500-1000 a pop. ... : ludi (#12) «

#12, About 9 years and 2 months ago, when a P2 450 was the top... : Ragnar Dan (#13) «

#13, Yet, the 300A would easily run at 450MHz and often sli... : slot_one (#24) «

#1. Posted at 12:43 PM on Aug 7th 2007

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Sargent Duck

While I'm in favor of simpler naming schemes, with quad cores becoming more prevalent, I think they should at least keep that suffix, to at least distinguish between duo cores.

#1, Eventually dual cores will go away. Eventually quad cores wil... : indeego (#2) «

#2, Then the Octo cores will go away, then the 16x.... : Lord.Blue (#3) «

#2, I'm going to keep insisting that quad-core is likely goin... : packfan_dave (#4) «

#4, While that might be true, it also means that performan... : Afty (#7) «

#7, I dunno, kinda what was said before Core 2 Duo with... : Smurfer2 (#10) «

#10, Some apps do see a linear speed up with more cor... : swaaye (#11) «

#11, No, they don't. They might see a near linear ... : sjl (#20) «

#4, Well, if we ever get to the point where we can put eig... : echo_seven (#17) «

#17, Terminal computing is starting to really become use... : Forge (#21) «

#21, How long till MS makes an unlimited-connections ... : Mr Bill (#22) «

#22, MS Business model is changing whether they li... : indeego (#23) «

#18. Posted at 09:53 PM on Aug 7th 2007

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mattsteg

How the heck is it "simplifying" to keep the same products but remove the information that lets you tell them apart from their names?

#18, All it's sayig is the 'Duo' part will go away, the model num... : MadManOriginal (#19) «

#16. Posted at 07:05 PM on Aug 7th 2007, Edited at 07:08 PM on Aug 7th 2007

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Mr Bill

WTH?! If the Core-architecture is similar, why not Core-2, Core-4, Core-8, and (unlikely) Core-16?

#15. Posted at 06:08 PM on Aug 7th 2007

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albundy

then shouldnt they call it Core 4?

#14. Posted at 06:08 PM on Aug 7th 2007

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odizzido

oh god no. It's bad enough as it is. When I look at a T7100 or T7200 or whatever I have no idea what the difference is.

Just today I was asked to look at some processors and I had to go a look the damn things up because T7100 means nothing to me.

#5. Posted at 01:42 PM on Aug 7th 2007

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Forge

Oh yeah, referring to multiple architectures by one product name is REALLY going to cut down on confusion.

#5, The only way I see this getting any more ridiculous is if AM... : Peffse (#9) «

#8. Posted at 03:51 PM on Aug 7th 2007

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Mithent

We've not even made use of two cores all that well, in many applications.. I'd still say that in a lot of cases, the dual core benefit is being able to have one application run a core to its full potential, while everything else shares the other? It's just speculation, mind.