Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

[chipguy]

chipguy, it makes no sense. Most of consumers know nothing about "benchmarks"
and buy based on "Mhz". AMD will have to price Barton 3000 at the price of P4 2.2 Ghz
(i.e. crappy discontinued cpu), which will be wrong from all points of view except yours.
Too much of wishful thinking from your side.

So making up a fictional number that looks like a competitive clock rate to trick
consumers for their own good is better?

A lot of bad things can be done with this lame justification that "consumers are
just too stupid to understand so we will do the thinking for them".

Asian counterfeiters could argue that their Rolecks watches and Guchi purses are
just as high quality as the true upscale brand name goods and by tricking consumers
the consumers themselves benefit by paying somewhat less and still getting a measure
of status symbol prestige from their just-as-stupid acquantances.