Well its a good thing.
Lets hope their vast variety of CPUs cleans up a little, its a mess to pick an intel cpu and people asking 'hey should I get this or that or maybe that', and gets to be a little more cohesive
I am no AMD fanboy but AMD's namings and brandings of CPUs are actually pretty nice.
Its way more simple to understand AMD than Intel.
Intel gives you a quite a few locked processors within each family (i3, i5, i7) with the first number as their generation and ... honestly, I dont know that does the rest mean. Slight modifications on he multiplier of course, differences on the HD Graphics, but they have many more than AMD has. To my point of view, if you plan your performance gaps correctly, LESS IS MORE. AMD with the FX line has 4, 6 and 8 cores, but only 1 or 2 of each for every generation (currently only BD and PD) and they are all unlocked (locking or unlocking makes Intel some absolutely free earnings, with I find to be a not very ethical or competitive way to go)
Well whatever, probably more than one out there will hate (and call names and all that childish stuff) about the AMD/Intel stupid fanboyism, but bottomline, phasing out old hardware is always good, forces the consumer to remake their idea of 'NEW' every now and then, which drives consumption for newer developments.
Cheers c: