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Why do they have to shave a few bucks of BoM and jump through hoops explaining why their 8GB is equivalent to their 16GB.

It’s like AMD saying our megahertz are better than your megahertz. It may be true but people just look at standard numbers.



That example is very actually very good one.

It has been known for years that megahertz are a terrible metric to measure CPU performance. The peak of that discussion was during the launch of Pentium 4, where it was proven that the IPC was much worse when comparing to a previous Pentium even though it had a lot more the clock speed.

Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_4 (Microarchitecture)


In order to sell another 8G for $200 obviously.

Like theregister puts it:

> There's a reason why we used to refer to Apple as the Cupertino idiot-tax operation.


The Apple version of "community-adjusted EBITDA"




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