[Amorymeltzer]

I think it's a much more useful metric. At the very basic level, I don't know what 2GHz or 5GHz will mean for my computer aside from bigger is better, but anyone can understand "2x faster."

Beyond that though, processor speed is increasingly useless as a single metric. This thing has eight cores, half high-performance and half high-efficiency; GPUs are everywhere and doing seemingly everything; and RAM is always important. The speed cannot be summarized in Hz, but in standardized tests and "The stuff you care about is way faster now."

[izacus]

Do you really, REALLY think that the marketing pitch is measuring what "you care about" and not cherry picking conditions where the big colorful "X" number on screen is higher?

[yxhuvud]

Faster at WHAT? It is a world of difference between apps that depends on single core performance and tasks that can easily be spread out over 8 cores.