Rabid Badger
2[H]4U
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How is Core 2 redundant or confusing?
There were Core 2 Solo and Duo processors. Now there are Core 2 Solo, Duo, and Quad processors.
My biggest gripe about the name is that when I was selling computers I talked to people all the time that were convinced Core2 was the same thing as dual-core. A few actually got mad at me when they said they wanted a dual-core system and I showed them Athlon X2's, Turion X2's and Pentium dual-cores (not Pentium D's, those ran too hot and performed too poorly to sell in good conscience).
It was most likely a calculated move by Intel's marketing department, though.