On Feb 22, 9:41*am, Anonymous wrote:
they bought out the i5/i3 and also a mutation of i7, what is
really closer to i5. they shoulda called it i5+ maybe?

And Pentium, FFS!
We got the Pentium dual, what was really a crippled Core2
(not the old Pentium D thermal monsters)
And next the Pentium G???? in LGA1156 - far removed from
the old Pentium 4 breed.
So that name could be anything from a snail to a cheetah.

When Intel apparently abandoned the Pentium name for Core 2, at least
a few people wondered why they had abandoned such a valuable brand
name.

Either they had second thoughts, or they never intended to abandon the
brand name. They have simply retreaded it. Perhaps they thought that
all but those who follow closely would have forgotten all about
Prescott by the time they revived the name.

If you were looking to save a few bucks on a processor, and had no
particular way to distinguish one from another, would you rather buy a
Pentium, or a Celeron?

Intel didn't get where it is by being stupid about marketing. How
erratic Intel is about its crippled chips (sometimes they are a
bargain, sometimes they belong in the trash) reflects the fact that
the choices are made by marketeers whose only real interest is
segmenting the market the way they want to.

Robert.