No I'm not. Didn't even know about that.

Exactly, you have to see also what kind of instructions are used, how they're used and how programs are coded to benefit of those functions. Moreover there are some Intel i5 CPUs that are dual core and other ones that are quad core, so not even the CPU family is enough anymore to know anything anymore which makes for the average not so tech savvy buyer even more difficult to choose and to know the real differences. But mainly this is probably just pure marketing!

I'm happy we found finally the right way to conclude this and u made a point, thing that wasn't coming out earlier. Ok about the use of doubles (like pistacchio), but about some dishes that are totally non existent I'll keep fighting...at least when they pretend they're italian! When I was in NJ a group of italian-american girl nearly wanted to start a fight just cuz I said that chicken parmigiana is not italian and if u go to italy they don't cook nor sell it. Lol! Cheers man!

I'm gonna let it go because I'm not a troll as someone marked me in this thread. I just want to let people know how things are. Because especially about Italy and italian culture there's a lot of disinformation, mostly spread by ignorance and by italian-american people. It will sound weird to you to know there's no such thing as veil piccata or marinara sauce or chicken parmigiana, in Italy simply because they're not italian things, just american invention that someone decided that people should believe they're truly italian recipes when here in Italy don't exist at all. Moreover Panini is the plural of panino and that pistachio is actually correctly written pistacchio and the right way to write straciatella is stracciatella...I could go on for ages. The only true thing said abroad about Italy is that our prime minster is a dickhead and I'm happy that abroad this is well known, I'm just sad that in Italy there are people that don't realize it. But I'd better end it and sorry if I disturbed you, I know all this developed in an extreme OT.

Whatever, I remain of my idea especially because in the original language no one will ever say linguini. So I don't even consider it a convention, just an "american convention".

I'm not, there are a lot of wrong conventions especially with italian words used abroad, that doesn't make them more correct at all, it just makes the amount of ignorant people bigger. This is not valid only for italian words of course but convention doesn't make something correct and it sucks when convention makes its way in written words and not just in slang.

The only way would be reversing it so american people would read linguine as linguini but then they'd start writing it the wrong way: linguini instead of linguine.

No I'm not. I'm italian (not italian american) and I know both languages pretty well. I live in Italy. The spelling mistake would have been the correct thing if the final "e" in linguine had to be pronounced as the english "e" in "adobe", instead it has to be pronounced like the "e" in "red", hence linguine is the way it's written in italian and linguini is wrong in any case.

Yes but you have to throw something that exists...linguini don't! The name of that kind of italian pasta is actually linguine not linguini, even though people in the USA keep calling them linguini. Go to Italy and ask for linguini, people will look at you in a weird way lol!

Exactly! Antonio Meucci was the real owner of the idea and the controversy was solved giving him his own rights, but lot of people don't know about this.