Re:The New MacBook Pro: Unfixable, Unhackable, Untenable
by CamperBob2 on Friday June 15, 2012 @10:31PM
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Processors have barely became faster in the last couple of years.
That's true in the low/mid-range market, but the high end is a different story. A Sandy/Ivy Bridge chip with 4+ cores is ridiculously fast compared to everything else. Meanwhile, today's low-end CPUs are no faster than the mid-market parts of 5 years ago.
The gap between the low and high end of the CPU performance spectrum causes problems for those of us who have to figure out what to target with new products.
That's true in the low/mid-range market, but the high end is a different story. A Sandy/Ivy Bridge chip with 4+ cores is ridiculously fast compared to everything else. Meanwhile, today's low-end CPUs are no faster than the mid-market parts of 5 years ago.
The gap between the low and high end of the CPU performance spectrum causes problems for those of us who have to figure out what to target with new products.