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Intel's ditching the 'i' in 'Core i5/i7/i9' and will stop calling out chip generations (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] Wiredfire@kayb.ee 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Harder to recognise makes it easier to up-sell crappier models to those not close enough to the detail. I was mulling over going AMD with the next laptop (which admittedly won’t be any time soon), this makes me lean more towards that idea.

[–] Widget@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago (5 children)
[–] briongloid@aussie.zone 5 points 1 year ago

The two market leaders woke up and chose violence

[–] cryball@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

It's got some fluff, but it's basically the same as any gpu in the last 15 years. First number for generation, second for comparing performance within the generation.

[–] n0stalghia@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

It has all the info about the CPU in the name, that's kinda cool

[–] Viktorian@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago

Weird scheme but at least high number good.