Quote Originally Posted by highoctane View Post

Being informed/educated is a consumers responsibility, to think that that the consumer is not capable of making an informed decision by reading the box or ask questions of the product they intend to buy is ridiculous.

If people don't know what the flip they are buying maybe they shouldn't be buying it without getting their knowledge on first, a novel idea yes....
That's quite narrow minded in my opinion. You would be surprised by how ignorant you or me or the average customer is when it comes to everyday shopping such as food. But anyway that's irrelevant. I expect somebody who buys specific hardware parts(eg gfx cards) to be fully aware of what he is buying, even though i doubt the average person considers renaming. If another person who doesn't really bother with computers (yes such people exist) decides to buy a tower or a whole computer system, they won't really know if the gfx card is an old one with just a new name. It is logical to assume that if the model has a different numbering system (eg from 200 to 300), then it is most probably a newer and I can think of lots of friends of mine who would fall into that trap. Yes it is ultimately their mistake but you have to be aware of something in order to look for it.