The Register: AMD's Athlon XP numbering scheme misses the (bench)mark

AMD has a point when it claims that megahertz alone are no longer a sufficient measure of the raw speed of a processor - something PowerPC fans have been rightly pointing out for quite a while now - and the company is right to seek an alternative way of stressing the fact. Our concern is simple: we're not sure that slapping '1800+' on a CPU enough to convince punters that it's faster than a 1.8GHz Pentium 4.