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Rediff had a decent sort of article on the very confusing topic of choosing a CPU for your next PC upgrade. Of course, they have tried to cover too much territory in a smallish, one page article - but that sets me thinking. There has been a feeling, over the years, of computer jargon being too complex for the layperson to understand. This is true for any technical domain, but since computers have become pretty much like TVs or DVD players do we really expect a prospective buyer to actually go through and decipher the words that we use while specifying CPUs and RAM and HDDs? How does one explain FSB, multi-core, 32/64 bits, HDD rpm, cache to a layperson? And why should said layperson care about all these?
If you clicked on the link, you'd have seen that it doesn't take you to the article, rather it points to the comments on the article. As of writing, there was only one comment, and a rather strange one at that. (http://in.rediff.com/getahead/2006/sep/13cpu.htm is where the original article is.)
I spent quite some time thinking about what the writer of that comment had in mind. Is it a case of him not being able to express what he means? Or is he really completely clueless? Or has someone led him up the garden path?
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