Too complex, or just necessary? (Score 2, Interesting)

Lets face it - the general public doesn't really need to know it all. Take cars for example: we've been making them for a lot longer than computers, but do people really know what the terms mean? When I tell my mother that her van has a 3.6L V6 engine with fuel injection, does she know what that means? Absolutely not. Does she still drive her van? Yes.
Computers are the same way. Of course they are confusing to the average person. Thats why there are companies like Dell, HP-Compaq, etc that make it simple.
Say, starting tomorrow, we started buying processors not by gigahertz, but by "fast","faster","really fast","really faster"...who would really know how fast it is anyway?

I think we're doing just fine :) If the average person can't handle the big terms, then the average person shouldnt be dealing with them.