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To: Charles Gryba who wrote (154718)	1/10/2002 4:37:10 PM
From: wanna_bmw	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 186894

Constantine, I know the point you're trying to make, but I don't see how AMD is doing anything to solve the problem. They aren't telling people that megahertz is a poor way to measure performance across micro-architectures; rather, they are hiding the megahertz and marketing arbitrary numbers. They know that people will treat these numbers like they were megahertz, and that's where the deception comes in. AMD wants people to believe that an Athlon XP 2000+ gives you the performance of a 2.0GHz Pentium 4, or better. They aren't saying that megahertz are bad - they are saying that megahertz are good, and that they want you to buy the Athlon because you think it's going to run like 2000MHz. See the difference? wbmw