Why does Apple not list what generation their processors are on their website?

Why does Apple not list what generation their processors are on their website?

Apple is embarrassed about their entire desktop lineup right now. Hopefully they'll start rolling out actual updates to make 'pro users' happier.

>ROGERS LTE

*leaves board*

Their customers don't know what that means.

Because then that would tell you how out of fucking date there systems are

Because it doesn't convey any useful information to the average consumer, and Apple isn't in the business of advertising for Intel.

99.99% of people who look at prebuilt computers online would not be able to glean any functional difference between even two vastly different chips like an 8350 vs a 5820k, and Apple doesn't want to clutter up their design with it or confuse consumers with it, for the same reason they don't advertise how many platters ship in the fusion drives.

I wish they would at least put it in fine print at the bottom or something, but it isn't like the information is difficult to find elsewhere. And really all I need is to look the chip up in Ark to get any useful information out of a model number anyway.

Because it’s not hard to search everymac or ifoxit to find out that information.

Why crowd your website listinf with something that other websites will just populate anyway?

They aren't selling the processors they are selling the system in a similar sense to consoles.

Good explanation.

To convey false impressions and dumb down the consumer

But they do, they just hide that information when it's on older hardware.

>dumb down the consumer
It works the other way mate. Marketing constantly have to find new ways to dumb things down to compete with the stupidity of your average consumer.

Intel just started calling the current crop of CPUs '8th generation' for no fucking reason other than marketing, before that they used an intentionally confusing number code.

Why does Apple have to play Intel's marketing game?

Mactoddler brainlets would see numbers greater than single digits and would get confused.

A.: Mac users have expensive facebook machines. It doesn't matter what generation it is, it's all going to run the same way anyways.
B.: Mac users generally lack the technical knowledge for even the small amount of information that is presented to them to mean anything. The only thing most of them know is "Bigger numbers are better".
C.: Advertising that kind of information would only serve to reveal that they're selling outdated hardware at ridiculous markups.

The GHz and core count is all you need

Because those CPUs are 4 generations old.

They haven't been updated since 2014.

Those are 3 years old CPUs are least..

Can you be more of a fanboi.

>core count is all you need
>core count
since when does apple run amd?

D.: None of the above.

According to Tim's reply to a user email the Mini is due for an upgrade.
This is from ArsTechnica.

It’s not like intel made any major improvements in 4 generations anyway so there’s no point in listing it.

>apple doesn't include intel's latest CPUs in everything despite the stunning 1% performance increase per year Intel is making

>ArseTechnica

>literally did an ethic cleansing of non-believers on their forums because they dared to call out the blatant apple dick sucking in the articles

Core count is everything in an era where the OS and all recently applications are multi-threaded. There are a vanishingly small number of use cases where a few but slightly faster cores make sense. About the only one which comes to mind is poorly optimized gaymes.

>the old email-from-a-casual-fan marketing trick

Some things don't change at Apple, huh.

They just didn't know how to make this announcement without looking stupid for not updating their mini line for 3 years.

Why did they bother updating their laptops then? Or their imacs?

Hardware hasn't improved that much in 3 years, right? They should have kept selling 3 years old laptops.

All the major tech media outlets suck big corporation dick, let's be honest.

If they didn't they wouldn't even be allowed on their events.

Because no one cares anymore. It's a CPU, made recently. It's more than good enough.

>8th generation is a new term

What the fuck they've been using generation to describe them for YEARS

It says Intel HD 5000 meaning it's haswell

the only feature on new CPUs that people would honestly notice is the hardware encode / decode block for HEVC

Same reason why Rolls Royce never used to publish horsepower figures anywhere. No need to bother with such plebbery and nitpicking and comparing and other legwork shit. Its a premium product, it'll work the way you expect it to and that is all.

They do. When you pick what Mac mini you want click on "Which processor is right for you?" in the CPU options.

Yes since one generation ago, whatever a generation means.

>repeatedly post poor-quality bait on namefag forum
>surprised when kicked off
wew lad, drumpf and apple toddlers btfo right?

It's the X000 of the model number, dipshit, the exception being 1st Gen core processor's which had 3 digit numbers

What about the 8080 or the Pentium Pro asswipe? Intel stopped using numbers and then ran out of unique words and then used words plus numbers and is now using words, other words, and numbers.

It's fucking pathetic.

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>checks price on the apple website
>$500
>my 2013 $300 laptop has better specs

Because apple users aren't supposed to care
about such minnor matters and details.

Also this
>It’s not like intel made any major improvements in 4 generations anyway

>Because apple users aren't supposed to care
>about such minnor matters and details.
You mean like spelling?

Look at this pathetic example of Apple damage control