icurafu
The Hallucinogenic Elf
Heres my take on it. What gp2x.co.uk is doing is pretty much insuring there product to reach a certain speed. Which is 275 in this case. However the article is clearly hinting that it has some kind of major change such as a new processer or some hardware mod that makes it that fast. I understand that this is going to bring buisness to them but how much of it is misleading the consumer. I at first thought it meant it had a more powerful processor. Though even after learning about it I still went with the 275 version as it was only a little more anyway I figured better safe then sorry. Form a marketing stand point it is a great move as it has seemed to bring sales up. But If I were craig id make it clear before someone who didnt do there research won't take it the wrong way. cause in all fairness it is confusing when on one page it says 200mhz another it says 240mhz and yet another 275 mhz. As others have said before it is true that processors are tested and binned all the time(example: celeron's are pentium 4's with lower clock speeds and lower L2 cache) But unless it is tested under the conditions that are needed in order to rate a processor then you are in no position to change the processor spec. Even to add to this it said that both processors were clocked at 275mhz. Well as we all know thats completely wrong and correct me if im wrong I believe that the video decoding processor is not overclocked and is not utilized by any of the emulators or programs anyway. except for a select few. So to sum this up I think that the article should be revised so that this is made clear and more importantly on the buy page ogf the gpx2.co.uk website so that this is again clarified so that people understand what there buying and one last thing I believe that people would buy it anyway if thats of any surprise to anyone as theres nothing wrong with buying one clocked to 275mhz. It gives the buyer peace of mind to know what he/she is getting.
Although represented in a brain-bleedingly large paragraph, this pretty much sums up how I feel about the issue, and I'm sure many others feel about it, based on previuos post in this thread.
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