Pentium is Intel's #1 (It's All About the Pentiums)

cant view cuz it blocked in canada

Hehehehe, Epic win on the vid. EDIT: Its not just Canadia, they busted everyone, cant see it in the US either. Good thing its in my collection hehehehhe

And this is exactly why they still have, and will have, a Pentium brand for a long time. EVERYONE has heard of it. Its their mainstream cash cow.

It's blocked in the US, too.

Try UltraSurf. Worked on showing the vid for me

They should release Pentium 5

This blocking by Sony Music reminds me of another Weird Al tune - Don't Download This Song.

Yeah they dumped that name fore CORE 2

Hey, let's all talk about how the video is blocked! Boy, it sure is blocked...

'Tis but thy name that is my enemy;--
Thou art thyself, though not a Montague.
What's Montague? It is nor hand, nor foot,
Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part
Belonging to a man. O, be some other name!
What's in a name? that which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet;
So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call'd,
Retain that dear perfection which he owes
Without that title:--Romeo, doff thy name;
And for that name, which is no part of thee,
Take all myself.

In other words, who cares what they call it? I do think Core is most inane name they could up with, but it wouldn't prevent me from buying it. It's like GM naming their next car "engine".

As far as the Pentium name going away, that's wrong. They actually intended to kill it after the Pentium III++ (aka Core 2) came out, and then decided to add the name back into the mix.

Pentium sounds more high end than something so prosaic as "Core". Core sounds like a workman like processor that might not be the fastest, but gets it done. Pentium sounds more regal, maybe because it sounds like Penultimate. I guess the Pentium 4 kind of left a bad taste in people's mouth though.

They still sell Celeron, but it doesn't sell well anymore. The name sounds too much like a non-nutritive vegetable anyway. I don't know how they expected people to think "Celerity". Most people haven't even been exposed to that word. But most have been to Celery, sadly, and maybe even whacked for not wanting to eat it as a kid.

After pentium comes hexium, or sexium...depending on whether you prefer greek or latin. Then comes heptium or septium. Then octium.

I think the use of YouTube is a nice commentary on the transitory nature of internet media. I've even seen "respected" news sites try to utilize these videos, only to have them blocked or taken down (sometimes by the original poster, often due to unfair usage). It all screams to me "this content is nothing more that fluff that has no meaning beyond the time it was posted"...

There is a pentium based on core 2 design and one based on i3 design.

Long live Pentium.

Pentium was really the best thing that Intel ever gave...

I loved my Pentium 3 and pentium 4 processors.

damn my procrastination....

Sony Entertainment, you're never getting my money for blocking a damn video. Seems like you corporate idiots never understand that heavy-handed approach just generates more discontent.

Kind of deceiving because I believe Intel started relabeling the low end Core2Duo's as "Pentium Dual Core" processors. I know I picked a Pentium Dual Core up for really cheap on a new computer I was building.

Yummy boy, newer Pentiums are castrated C2Ds... and will probably transition to next gen cores. Even Celerons did it... well known names die hard.

Pentium was not a logic name any way ...
Back in the day when intel cpu's used the 80x86 names clones started to rise and since intel was about to release the 5th generation of cpu's (80586) and could not trademark the number 80586 they named it pentium (5th).

A pentium II would by that logic be a pentium (5th gen x86) version 2 and in case of the pentium II it made sense in some way since it was basically a pentium Pro with MMX however the pentium 3 was structurally so different that it was in no way another sub-generation of the 80586 the same goes for the awe-full designed that got the name pentium 4 (and no i am in no way a amd fanboy i use a combination of intel cpu's and ati grfx for years now but netburst just sucks).

[citation]much of the mainstream market (especially in parts of the worldwide market) is price sensitive to the point that the older and much cheaper technology is preferred.[/citation]

Current Pentium CPUs are based on exactly the same technology as the Core2, just with less cache. The latest models even have as much L2 cache as some of the Core2 models. Also the mainstream market in north america is at least as price sensitive as in other parts of the world.

actual music video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpMvS1Q1sos

Actually, you're completely wrong on the generations. The Pentium Pro was nothing like the original Pentium. The original actually executed x86 instructions, and was in an in-order lockstepped design. The Pentium Pro is what we use today, as it became the Pentium II (moved cache off chip, cached segmentation registers for better 16-bit performance), Pentium III (added SSE), Pentium M, Core, Core 2, Core i7.

Interestingly, the Pentium Pro was widely despised when it came out because the performance on 16-bit apps was poor - slower than the Pentium clock for clock. Intel was told by Microsoft that everything would be 32-bit by 1995, and of course, it wasn't. So the Pentium Pro was never really a mainstream part, due to that and the cost of them. The Pentium II was the mainstream version.

The original Pentium is being used as the basis for the Larrabee though, so even it's not dead.

The original Pentium is being used as the basis for the Larrabee though, so even it's not dead.

well, It's dead now.

I hate regional blocking on youtube well any way I still have a few Pentium 1 cpus with a few being engineering samples.

Just like i wrote though your wrong about the MMX thing while it was optional on pentium 133Mhz up to 233Mhz cpu's all Pentium II cpu's used the MMX instruction set.
I know it is hard to read and even harder to google before you tell some one he is wrong.

I forgot to add that your most likely confused with SSE which in turn was added with the introduction of the pentium III.

I just learned last month that the cash registers of certain supermarkets (due to contract agreements I can not say which ones), still run Pentium 2 and Pentium 3's.

Many small businesses that started 4 to 5 years ago, still run Pentium single core, Pentium based computers.

A lot of poorer nations like India, China, and Africa don't have the budgets to start purchasing Dualcores. They also run regular Pentiums.
And since China, India, and africa together have more than half the world population living there, the claim of Single core pentiums would not surprise me!

He is correct on this, as... during that period... I "upgraded" a Pentium 1 166Mhz to a Pentium 1 200Mhz with MMX about the time that the fastest CPU was a Pentium 2 266Mhz (all of which had MMX). It was my first experience with evolving CPU sockets.

Not in the Canada I'm in.

"Pentium will likely be on the way out starting in 2011."
I doubt that based on the number of less fortunate countries using older pentiums and CRT monitors.
Also based on the number of people getting second hand computers.
Not everyone is an enthusiast. And not everyone can afford the latest and greatest.

When did I say the Pentium II didn't have MMX? Of course it did, but MMX wasn't the main change to it. MMX really meant nothing. There were architectural changes to it besides that. The Pentium Pro was very poor on 16-bit code, so Intel cached the segmentation registers which greatly improved 16-bit code. They also doubled the L1 cache, and most importantly moved the cache off chip so it wasn't so expensive. There were other small changes as well.

MMX was rarely used, and not an important technology.

Pentium Pro, and Pentium II were nothing like the original Pentium. They were not a sub-class of it.

Pentium III had EXACTLY the same architecture as the Pentium II, they just added SSE instructions to it. They performed identically on all benchmarks that did not use SSE.

Pentium 4 was a complete departure from this technology.

If you're using Google for this, that's scary.

"I should do the world a favor and cap you like old Yellor. You're just about as useless as JPEGs to Hellen Keller"

LMFAO