What happened to Pentium?
Today while I was looking at the new Core 2 Duo promises I thought: What happened to the Pentium? From what I remember back when Pentium 3 was brand new, that was it. Period end of sentence. Yes you could get different versions of the Pentium 3, but there was no Centrino, there was no Celeron, there was no D. But then Pentium 4 came around and that was it for a little while. Then you heard about Intel Celeron and Celeron D. Then there was Pentium M. I myself was not that big into the whole computer Biz. yet. So I thought that Intel was trying to make all these things, and I predicted that they would flop. But here we are and there they still are.
Celeron goes into your Lower-Middle class computer and Celeron D went into the low class computer. Then Centrino went into the laptops along with Pentium M. You hardly ever heard anything of Pentium 4, until HT came around.
Pentium 4 with Hyper Threading is basically a mock dual core. Hypothetically 2 or more programs could run through the same processor without any slowdown in speed. You cfould be browsing the web and running a Virus scan and you wouldn't notice any performance problem. However I could never find this revolutionary technology in any of the Mid-class computers. I could find it only in the high-end computers.
Then came this Core Duo. Along with a new logo for everything, and a new sound for the new thing (I thought the sound had an extra instrument in there, the whole dual-core dual-instrument thing was appealing). Then Centrino was Centrino Duo. I haven't hardly seen any implementation of the Centrino Duo, but the Core Duo is everywhere even in notebooks.
Now there is this new thing called Core 2 Duo. Supposedly it is 64-bit. to this I say FINALLY!! It's about time AMD had a real competitor. They have had Dual-Core for a long time, they have had 64-bit a long time, I have both of these and I laughed at Intel for being a stick in the mud. But now not even a year after the announcement of Core Duo, now there is Core 2 Duo. And maybe even quad core (in the Mac case).
But back to my original question: What happened to Pentium? I wanted Intel to stay with the Pentium name I would have liked to have seen the Blue Men Group make a 5 into an instrument.
But that is my rant for now.
Celeron goes into your Lower-Middle class computer and Celeron D went into the low class computer. Then Centrino went into the laptops along with Pentium M. You hardly ever heard anything of Pentium 4, until HT came around.
Pentium 4 with Hyper Threading is basically a mock dual core. Hypothetically 2 or more programs could run through the same processor without any slowdown in speed. You cfould be browsing the web and running a Virus scan and you wouldn't notice any performance problem. However I could never find this revolutionary technology in any of the Mid-class computers. I could find it only in the high-end computers.
Then came this Core Duo. Along with a new logo for everything, and a new sound for the new thing (I thought the sound had an extra instrument in there, the whole dual-core dual-instrument thing was appealing). Then Centrino was Centrino Duo. I haven't hardly seen any implementation of the Centrino Duo, but the Core Duo is everywhere even in notebooks.
Now there is this new thing called Core 2 Duo. Supposedly it is 64-bit. to this I say FINALLY!! It's about time AMD had a real competitor. They have had Dual-Core for a long time, they have had 64-bit a long time, I have both of these and I laughed at Intel for being a stick in the mud. But now not even a year after the announcement of Core Duo, now there is Core 2 Duo. And maybe even quad core (in the Mac case).
But back to my original question: What happened to Pentium? I wanted Intel to stay with the Pentium name I would have liked to have seen the Blue Men Group make a 5 into an instrument.
But that is my rant for now.
posted by Ty at 1:46 PM
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