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does anyone else get annoyed when a manufacturer (such as apple) compare the speed of a new device with the same device of the previous generation and uses "2X faster" to describe the improvements?

here's the logic.

when they say 30% faster (or anything less than 100%), it is accurate. example, previous gen device runs at 100 MHz, new device runs at 130 Mhz. this is accurately described as 30% faster. translated to decimals, 30% is 0.30.
40% faster is 0.40, 50% is 0.50...99% is 0.99. so logically at 100% faster, it's 1.0 faster.

but then when a device is running at 200 MHz compared to something running at 100 MHz, they say it's 2X faster. what happened to 1X faster?
they can say twice as fast, but 2X faster is completely wrong.