Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

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Tenchu, you are straining to support Intel's MHz Myth while criticising AMD. Consider that your argments may be colored by your investing preferences, a dangerous thing for certain!

What's the "error"? Clock speed is clock speed, useful for comparing two different CPUs in the same family of products. Obviously a Celeron running at 2.6 GHz isn't going to be the same as a P4 running at the same speed.

That is the fallacy in your argument. The average Celeron purchases does not know that the Celeron runs significantly slower than the equivalent P4. Intel has been cynically fooling these folks for years. Even now when they have the 300-series numbering (a good move) they are permitting advertising that highlights the MHz right next to the model number, nullifying the goodness of that model number.

Now AMD is joining in the game. It is a sad day for the CPU business.