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Argh! nothing more annoying than a high voted answer that is completely wrong

What's the difference between mobile and desktop processors?

He says TDP is the main indicator of performance. My current quad core 3GHz i5 cpu has a TDP of 80W, as does my 2002 Athlon XP. They are not even remotely similar in performance. These facts are 100% verifyable, in one paragraph I have shown that the entire basis of his answer is factually incorrect.

Booo :(

There really needs to be a way to overule voting where something can be clearly shown to be entirely wrong?

This misinformation is really damaging to the credibility (as well as the usefulness) of stackexchange as a whole and unsurprisingly happens the most in superuser where the audience is least technical or capable of assesing the merit of an answer. People can say any old nonsense, add a graph and it gets upvoted like crazy.

Once they snowball better answers don't just rise to the top, they never get looked at at all.

Fact is not a popularity contest, we need a sanity checking mechanism.

JamesRyan
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