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[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Or the 1200 different versions of CPUs. We just got some new Dell machines for our DR site last year and the number of CPU options was overwhelming. Is it really necessary for that many different CPUs?

[–] real_squids@sopuli.xyz 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Tbf AMD is also guilty of that, in the laptop/mobile segment specifically. And the whole AI naming thing is just dumb, albeit there aren't that many of those

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Well this scheme seems much more reasonable and logical to me.