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As mentioned by Steve
Jack at MacDailyNews, there's likely a bit of head scratching
as the Wintel crowd tries to process the claim that the 1.6 GHz
Centrino performs just as well as the 2.4 GHz Pentium 4-M.
However, in what will likely be a wondrous somersault worthy of
any politician, the Wintel camp will strike up the band and flog this
modern wonder for all it's worth. Repeat after me: "1.6 good, 2.4
bad."
I really don't envy the writers who have to explain this to the
flock. Imagine trying to undo years of propaganda claiming that more
is better. While I fully expect every PC journalist to fully embrace
the reasoning, the reason they will embrace it (and quickly, I'm
sure) is the fact that they really knew it all along. While chip
design is not a walk in the park, the basics can be explained quite
easily.
The teeming masses might be a little harder to convince. I'm
certainly not saying that people are stupid but heck, considering
that How Car
Engines Work is the 5th most requested explanation at the
How Stuff Works
website, I'm not expecting the "1.6 is faster than 2.4" to garner
instant acceptance.
It will be an uphill battle, as Apple fans already know - which
is why I think it's great that Intel will be throwing some of its
marketing muscle behind the "MHz doesn't matter" campaign.
Intel, after all, pretty much single-handedly created the MHz
myth. Who better to debunk it?
Perhaps Apple and Intel could join forces to help teach new
computer buyers why faster processors are not necessarily better.
Perhaps they can have a great little traveling road show with stops
all over North America. A public display at malls across the country
would do wonders. Heck, they might even be able to use the Apple
Store for a few of these little seminars.
Shouldn't they be good friends united against a common enemy, the
Megahertz Myth?
You don't need me to tell you that you shouldn't hold your
breath.
Even if Apple and Intel don't join forces for the common good, at
the very least Intel will be the one explaining how the heck slower
can be just as good (and in some ways better).
Again, not a task I would relish. Better let someone else do
it.
Stephen Van
Esch is the founder and president of
the
E-learning Foundry, an online training
resource for Mac users. Steve loves the Mac and is doubly bilingual,
since he's also fluent in Windows and French.
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