AMD Dropping The Athlon Name?

Catweazle said:
To me, the important change here is that, along with the name change, AMD is dropping the PR rating scheme for its CPUs and introducing a ridiculously uninformative 'model code' scheme similar to the one Intel uses. No more glancing at the PR rating and being able to roughly ascertain "Yep, that'n should be more capable than this'n by about THAT much!"
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yes, Yes, YES! This, IMO, is the stupidest thing about the change. I really dislike Intel's new processor model numbers--they don't give any indication whatsoever of how fast a given processor is. As much as some people like to lambast AMD's PR ratings, at least they give an easy, convenient, reasonably accurate feel for a CPU's performance. If AMD think the numbers (3800, 4800, 5600, whatever) are getting too big, I don't think it's a problem to "reset" and start the numbers over at, say, 100. However, it really ticks me off that they are now trying to 'hide' what you can expect from the processor.
Rabid Badger said:
Um, that's exactly what they're doing. This name will be applied to the Barcelona and Agena processors.
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I stand corrected. You're right--it is being introduced with the new products. The wording just threw me off when they said they would "slowly introduce the new brand".
 
I don't care what they call it, as long as it gives me great performance for the money spent. If they can deliver a CPU that gives me superb performance for 200 bucks, I couldn't care less if they called it the "TomPabston."

On that note, I hated Intel's name of "Pentium," and I really disliked AMD's names of "Sempron." I did like "Opteron," though.
 
they should of called it The Deuce,

The Gooch would work well also
 
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