Intel has once again changed the design of its processor badge and rating system lineup. The new, very sleek design looks very stylish and brings a fresh design to the badges, since the last design change.The new badge system brings a rating system to the chips out of five stars (being the best performance) to one star (being the lowest in performance) to help consumers purchase the best computer for their money in major retailers like Best Buy. The badges will help consumers "distinguish between Centrino, Core, Celeron, Core 2 Duo, Core 2 Quad" said Intel spokesman Bill Calder.
(image courtesy of ZDNet.com)
(I realise its a bit early for these changes to stat filtering through)
I think the positioning and coloration of them all is horrible, I hope they look better in real life than they do on here.
collection!dammit gimme one
Model numbers at least remain meaningful
I can see some people making wrong/misinformed purchases with these new badges... but now that I think about it, the badges might not be that the problem, but the naming convention in general…
Prior to the i7, of course, that has an excellent naming scheme.
Maybe they should have tried a few more designs internally first, but then again, I don't know how many designs they had to choose from to begin with.
That's just my idea though... I don't get into hardware much, so perhaps I have the completely wrong idea. Also, there's the colouring of the tabs... What's their significance? I hope some sort of handy guide or something will be on the box for consumers because this confuses me greatly...
Black has always been the highest tier for enthusiasts.
Blue has been the mid to upper mainstream.
White has been the lower mainstream and budget.
The tabs are representative of each architecture, basically a snapshot of the CPU core itself as can be seen here: http://regmedia.co.uk/2007/12/20/nehalem_1.jpg (Core i7).
The lower tier being blue instead is just probably a sign that it's not that significant and should be kept simple and discrete.
I like the white Intel Pentium best out of these.
Black has always been the highest tier for enthusiasts.
Blue has been the mid to upper mainstream.
White has been the lower mainstream and budget.
The tabs are representative of each architecture, basically a snapshot of the CPU core itself as can be seen here: http://regmedia.co.uk/2007/12/20/nehalem_1.jpg (Core i7).
The lower tier being blue instead is just probably a sign that it's not that significant and should be kept simple and discrete.
I like the white Intel Pentium best out of these.
Thanks for clearing that up. It kinda made sense, but I just wasn't sure.
And It s a horrible design imo, it reminds me of colorful case stickers from 1993.
Also, why would Intel hide the Core i7 vs. Core 2 designation with a low contrast graphic?
http://www.techpowerup.com/index.php?86478
posted february 26th
Also, while I love my Core i7 to bits, it came with the worst looking badge sticker ever (not that I'd use it on my nice, clean P180B, but I digress). I still think the old textured metal ones from the Pentium II/Celeron and Pentium III days looked the most impressive, and having CORE in CAPS does irk me at least a little... but it's still just a sticker.
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