They don’t seem to understand where the customer confusion comes from. A lot of people out there don’t really realize that a Core i7 could mean very different things because that name has been slapped on new CPUs for…15 years. They delineate product generations as part of a model number (2600k, 6700k, etc). There is so much ambiguity when someone just says their computer has a Core i7, non tech-savvy folk aren’t going to remember the string of numbers that comes after that.
AMD copied them, and that probably leads to similar confusion.
Apple seems to be the smart one in the room when it comes to CPU naming. The generation of the product is right there in the first part of it’s name: M1, M2, etc. The performance class is suffixed (no suffix, Pro, Max, Ultra).
Well officially yes, but I don’t know anyone that consistently called it “Intel Core i5” instead of just “i5”. And I don’t see that happening with just “5”.
But it doesn’t simplify the processor name!? Instead of i5, we now have to say “core 5” or “intel core 5”.
They don’t seem to understand where the customer confusion comes from. A lot of people out there don’t really realize that a Core i7 could mean very different things because that name has been slapped on new CPUs for…15 years. They delineate product generations as part of a model number (2600k, 6700k, etc). There is so much ambiguity when someone just says their computer has a Core i7, non tech-savvy folk aren’t going to remember the string of numbers that comes after that.
AMD copied them, and that probably leads to similar confusion.
Apple seems to be the smart one in the room when it comes to CPU naming. The generation of the product is right there in the first part of it’s name: M1, M2, etc. The performance class is suffixed (no suffix, Pro, Max, Ultra).
I have a feeling everyone’s going to end up calling them i9s anyways
Before it was Intel Core i5 so it’s simpler than the old name
Well officially yes, but I don’t know anyone that consistently called it “Intel Core i5” instead of just “i5”. And I don’t see that happening with just “5”.
“Which processor do you have?”
“5”
said nobody ever
That’s exactly the point I’m trying to make. “i5” as an answer would’ve made sense, but “5” doesn’t