Re: Trivia: Processor MHz

From: Chris Rehm <javadisciple@earthlink.net>

> For years IBM has had to fight the problem of simple minded customers
> who read MHz as the be-all, end-all of how fast a computer is.
>
> AMD hasn't succeeded in jumping this same hurdle. Their processors are
> faster (in workload) than Intel processors with a higher MHz rating. But
> in our simple minded marketplace where buyers compare clock speeds and
> pretend that is performance, AMD is losing sales they shouldn't.
>

As you say, the companies whose chip MHz rating is lower than Intel's
will always (accurately) claim that MHz is misleading and to no avail.
The simple-minded market place will not listen. My contention was
that if those same companies had chips with a rating higher than the
highest Intel they would stop saying that MHz is misleading. After all,
we cannot ignore all those simple-minded people out there, can we?