Intel’s ditching the ‘i’ in ‘Core i5/i7/i9’ and will stop calling out chip generations

@ag_roberston_author@beehaw.org

The apple chips are very straightforward though?

M1, M2 for generation, and (nothing), Pro, Ultra, Max for level.

jjakc

I want to buy a second hand iPad or MacBook. How am I meant to know which one is which gen?

The only product they have that is clear and somewhat easy for consumers is the iPhone.

@shapesandstuff@feddit.de

Always irked me. Not even apple fanboys i know could tell which is which until they know the date of release.

You don’t intuitively know which quarter of which year which version of a different device with the same name is at a glance?

@snowbell@beehaw.org

They all have model numbers that are on the back of the device and easy to look up

@shapesandstuff@feddit.de

Interesting because everyone i know always went “which macbook pro is that? Q3 2018?”

Or is the number system a new addition? Most of my apple. Experience was in uni a good while ago

@snowbell@beehaw.org

It is as old as I can remember, they are just never referred to those numbers in marketing material. Not the best way to do it but they are there.

@shapesandstuff@feddit.de

Ok well :'D