Nov 30, 2005

Popular science articles?

Rediff has another "article", this time on AMD, even though the title indicates something about a sub-10,000 rupees PC.

Quote: "For the uninitiated, most PCs are loaded with 32-bit chips, which means they can process 32 bits of data every second. AMD's 64 bit offering is not only four times faster, it offers more Random Access Memory (RAM), the instant memory that is needed to perform various tasks while the computer is on."

32 bits of data every second? 64 bit offering is 4 times faster? Offers more RAM?

That makes me wonder on how misleading the other articles in the media could be. On personal finance, for example. Or on health, or how to get a job in a call center.

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For the customer willing to listen to a story of finer algebraic detail, AMD has its "dual core technology" to talk about. This offers virtually two processors in one, which, working in conjunction, delivers more than twice the performance."

Right. Virtually two processors, more than twice the performance. Where do they find these writers?



2 comments:

chaos said...

LoL...
post the same on theie comment box

Veerapathiran said...

for the uninitiated, he is not interested in detail..as long as the quote drives home the point that it is faster, it is ok..

the problem here could be that the one who wrote this could be uninitiated and was just copying some stmts from AMD decided to do some edits himself to make it more readable etc..