Well, they're not lying about it being good enough, because for the vast majority of people, it is. Honestly, I have an FX-8350 in my desktop rig, and a six-year-old C2D T7200 in my laptop, a 2 GHz dual-core. And for 95 percent of the things I do, there's no difference between the two. If I surf the internet, watch videos, do work-related stuff, i.e. the type of things that Joe Everyman does with a PC, any of those things run just as well on the ancient T7200 as the FX-8350. I have to do something like play a recent game or re-master a large set of DVDs, like I did the other night, before the 8350 becomes a necessity.