[josteink]

I’ve had a P4 and I didn’t consider it “awful”.

It was without a doubt the fastest CPU I had ever had at the time, but boy did it generate heat and need cooling.

That machine sounded like a always on vacuum-cleaner.

[sidewndr46]

I owned a Pentium 4 as well (oh boy did I save for a long time as a teenager to afford that). It wasn't really as bad as what this article claims. On the other hand, the dual-core parts probably really are that bad.

[jandrese]

The article did call out in particular the late generation P4s with the super duper extra long pipeline that simply couldn't keep themselves fed when working with anything but synthetic benchmarks.