Intel is attempting to make processor specifications more useful to normal people by focusing less on engineering statistics and more on actual applications. What is interesting here is that Intel<\/a> is essentially admitting the difficulty in quantifying the improvements of their latest hardware. It is, however, easier to qualify their improvements by showcasing their hardware using applications people use everyday.<\/p>\n This de-obfuscation of a processor’s ability is a good thing. It means that my mother-in-law can stroll through Best Buy and understand that a given set of hardware is going to perform better at the tasks she cares about most. In the end, it really is less about GHz and more about GTD<\/a>.<\/p>\n TUAW<\/a>Intel uses iTunes for benchmarking<\/a> originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)<\/a> on Mon, 11 Jan 2010 17:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds<\/a>.<\/p>\n Read<\/a> | Permalink<\/a> | Email this<\/a> | Comments<\/a> <\/p>\n Buy This Item: [Click here to buy this item]<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/b7102_itunes-icon.jpg\"){kind=icon}
Here’s a bit of interesting for you from the folks over at APC<\/a>: during a press event at CES 2010<\/a>, Intel used iTunes<\/a> to tout its latest processors rather than one of the other oft-used performance-testing suites. Specifically, they showed off an i5 processor not by running some complex graphics simulation or commercial benchmarking algorithm, but by launching iTunes and synchronizing with an attached iPod.<\/p>\n<\/h6>\n