John, Re: "If the goal was to really help the end user, the industry should establish a board of independent testers, with a simple to understand rating system. It might give a rating for several performance categories, and then an average, final number. Better yet, the systems should be rated, not the components."
In my opinion, multiple numbers will confuse the consumer, and any single number will fail to capture the performance for different applications. I see no problem to listing megahertz as a measurement of CPU clock cycles per second, just as long as there is a way to also identify advantages in the micro-architecture. Unfortunately, a measurement for the latter does not yet exist that can tell the whole story. The actual solution to this problem may be difficult indeed, but as long as one company or the other is ahead in megahertz, I don't see much of a compelling reason for them to pioneer in this area.
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