My favorite is the commercials claiming you can get a high speed internet like cable up to 50 times faster than dial-up. Anone have that 50 times faster then dial up connection yet?
There was also the time (I want to say Pentium 4 days) that AMD released processor numbers that weren't that actual MHZ rating, but instead a "performance indicator" to show that the performance of the slower clock speed of AMD's were along the lines of current P4's. I wouldn't call that dishonest or anything, but it did lead to some confusion.
My favorite is the commercials claiming you can get a high speed internet like cable up to 50 times faster than dial-up. Anone have that 50 times faster then dial up connection yet?
LCD/TV companies are messing with us with all the BS specs right now. 10 years from now we will laugh at the contrast ratio claims.
I recall an ad from the mid 90s from some company claiming that their compression software could get any file, no matter how large, down to a few KB. All you had to do was keep recompressing the same file until it was down the size that you wanted. Wish I had saved a copy.
There was Cyrix back then, marketing their 166mhz cpus as "200", model... They had pretty much the shittiest FPU ever. Their ALU was great, but, they were completely useless for anything related to any game.
I recall an ad from the mid 90s from some company claiming that their compression software could get any file, no matter how large, down to a few KB. All you had to do was keep recompressing the same file until it was down the size that you wanted. Wish I had saved a copy.
My favorite is the commercials claiming you can get a high speed internet like cable up to 50 times faster than dial-up. Anone have that 50 times faster then dial up connection yet?
They had no FPU (or next to none since it sucked), right? I had a Cyrix 586 CPU and it was awesome until I fired up Quake, which thrived off of FPU performance, lol.
It was probably those dual CPU computers. They had computers that supported two CPUs, so theoretically, it could be double the speed. With the advent of dual core, we do not see it anymore.
Yes, last year I went looking for a simple 2-channel integrated amp or stereo receiver. There weren't many serious audio shops here then (a couple have popped up in the past year) so I had to check out all the big chains. One sales guy threw me the most befuddled look ever when I said I wanted something no frills, a simple 80Wx2 amp. He even said something to the effect, "Even laptop speakers these days deliver like 500W." I politely told him he was mistaken and walked away.are speakers still sold with the 9 brazillion watts PMPO rating?
yes, last year i went looking for a simple 2-channel integrated amp or stereo receiver. There weren't many serious audio shops here then (a couple have popped up in the past year) so i had to check out all the big chains. One sales guy threw me the most befuddled look ever when i said i wanted something no frills, a simple 80wx2 amp. He even said something to the effect, "even laptop speakers these days deliver like 500w." i politely told him he was mistaken and walked away.
But he obviously thought i was a noob or a retard. Oddly enough, in the very same store, the guy in the harman kardon section was doing the exact opposite: He was desperately trying to convince some other guy that their 80wx5 receiver would blow the crap out of some random >9000w pmpo stereo.
Another time, a guy i knew was showing off his new car audio system and added something to the same effect, "this thing puts out like 2000w" or some ridiculous number like that. When i pointed out that it said 45wx4 right there on the amp itself, he refused to acknowledge it.
All I remember is the huge debacle with regards to HDD sizes. 1024 MB = 1 GB not 1000 MB = 1 GB
If you give the marketing tards room for error when it comes to math, they will exploit it to the nth degree.
There was also the time (I want to say Pentium 4 days) that AMD released processor numbers that weren't that actual MHZ rating, but instead a "performance indicator" to show that the performance of the slower clock speed of AMD's were along the lines of current P4's. I wouldn't call that dishonest or anything, but it did lead to some confusion.
Back in the 90s, I remember seeing these ads all over magazines like Computer Shopper that were advertising computers with absolutely stupid specs. Like, stuff that I knew couldn't be right. While I only had a 486sx (33 mhz!) at the time, my friends were beginning to get things like Pentium 133s and Pentium 2's, and I read PC Magazine whenever I could. I was in no way an expert, but I had at least a vague idea what was going on.
The ads, however, claimed things like 500 mhz, or maybe even 5000 mhz. I honestly don't remember, it's been quite awhile. The claims were obviously false, but I didn't know why.
I still don't know exactly what they were, and I'm having trouble finding copies of the ads online. I haven't thought about those things for a decade or more, but they were on my mind this morning and I got to thinking: What was up with that?
Does anyone else remember those things? Were the claims literal fabrications, or was there some bizarre marketing-speak behind it? (There are fifty 66mhz CPUs glued to the inside of the case, that's over 3000 mhz!)
Yep. I had that about 8 years ago.My favorite is the commercials claiming you can get a high speed internet like cable up to 50 times faster than dial-up. Anone have that 50 times faster then dial up connection yet?