Apple Announces New Phone

[CosmicDustBunny]

31. Oh. Well that makes sense. I was wondering about the power drain.

I remember when the Amiga came out (first true multi-tasking desktop) and the CEO of IBM said there was absolutely no use for multi-tasking on a home computer. I suspect he said that because IBM was so far behind in hardware at the time. Bill Gates dismissed a multi-tasking operating system as "useless". Oh, my, things change. The Amiga had multiple processors on the same bus from the very start. It took a while for other companies to adopt multiple processors and even longer for the CPU manufacturers to embed them in the same chip. Sometimes all you need is a 6502 to do the job at time and other times you need a mainframe.

Your explanation makes a lot of sense. Use the low-drain cores first and pump up to the higher drain cores when necessary. I just haven't kept up on the specific models of chips and their capabilities and speeds. This almost 5-year old laptop has a sticker on it that says "AMD Turion64". I know AMD is a company and I know 64 indicates the bits, but I'll be damned if I know what the significance of the name Turion is.

"Pentium" basically was a cool name for 586. After that, I sort of lost track of what the names meant, if anything. I'm old school. I prefer model numbers the same way I prefer displacement numbers on car engines. I don't care what you call it, what's the damn lineage and current capacity? But hey, that's marketing for you. Give it a cool name and people think "shiney!"