Re: Bungling Apple Lost the Plot on Texting

On 12/17/24 1:51 PM, Alan wrote:

On 2024-12-17 10:43, Joel wrote:

Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> wrote:
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The i5 was NEVER "fairly high-end". The i5 was and is a mid-range
processor.
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Why can you not admit the obvious?

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No, the CPU I had in my old computer was higher end, at the time I
assembled it.  There were still a lot of more primitive CPUs being
sold, at the time.

No. It was not "higher end".

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Wrong.
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 All the high-end processors Intel was producing in 2010 disagree.
 In 2010, Intel released:
 29 processors with 4 cores.
 Just two of them were i5s.
 As well as:
 16 processors with 6 cores.
 4 processors with 8 cores.
 None of those were i5s.
 Face facts, snowflake.

Joel doesn't realize that when I was stating about how the 2010 Intel lineup...
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Well, back in that era, the i5 was a newly designed/designated CPU, but it wasn't "higher end" because the i7 and Xeons were already out by then too, and Intel's corporate roadmap was that Xeons was for workstations and the i7 targeted the business and high-end consumer markets, which left the i5 for mainstream consumer and i3 for entry-level consumers.
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That I was paraphrasing from Intel's literature descriptions on Wiki.
As such, its not my claim (nor Alan's) that the i5 was just "mainstream" from 2009 to present.
-hh