The Athlon name to be replaced by...............Barton???

[NFS4]

Huh, WTF?? ACK!!!

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/3/18774.html

 

[Joemonkey]

hehe, that's awesome

 

[neuralfx]

barton....... barton..... i mean i dont buy products based soley on a name or anything... but barton... ::sigh::.. oh well..
-neural

 

[Charles]

Oh man. I don't think they should change the name.

 

[Biggs]

I thought it was going to be Simpson, Barton Simpson, yeah it's lame I know.

 

[AndyHui]

At this point I think even Duron sounds better.

Every processor has always had a "techie" sort of name.

Unless AMD changes it, it's going to take a bit of getting used to.

 

[LXi]

Yea... isnt this the same kind of reaction when they decide to call K7 "Athlon"? I dont think Barton sounds that bad.

 

[AndyHui]

Intel might show a horrible lack of imagination with each subsequent Pentium family, but they never get any sort of acceptance problems like this.

 

[LXi]

Yea, Pentium, Xeon, Itanium, they all seem to be well accepted by the public.

 

[Passions]

Alot of people were upset over the Athlon name at first too.

 

[Pocatello]

Barton, that's amusing.

 

[mztykal]

Yah but Barton? OMG! That's a gay name! (no offense to anyone named Barton)...

 

[LXi]

Exactly what people said when they decide to call K7 "Athlon", I guess history does repeat itself. Give the name a break.

 

[UCBPride]

pronounce it like "Bar Tun" and you'll start liking it.

 

[Rand]

I agree, that's a HORRIBLE name for a processor. Then again, people said the same about "Athlon" and I rather like that name now.

At least the name "Duron" I thought was good from the start...

 

[John]

I agree with LXi. I remember the name frenzy we had on the forums when we found out the K7 was going to be called Athlon.

 

[Mixxen]

Don't worry it'll sink in...

Remember you all had the exact same reaction toward the Athlon and Duron name...now Barton...LOL Hahahahahaa, what kind of fricken name is that

 

[Muerto]

*sigh* I guess with all the money they're making off the Athlon they can afford to smoke some premium crack! That's the only explanation I can think of for why they'd come up with a name like Barton!

 

[Moonbeam]

Maybe it's supposed to be Batron.

 

[Degenerate]

hmm.. is that suposse to be a new chip? new design?

 

[sandorski]

Barton, the cpu that spanks the P4 silly then says, "Don't have a cow, man!"

 

[RanDum72]

Barton....Bart Simpson?

 

[eGAK]

If I call it the Bartonalon, it satisfies my craving for name association.

 

[DeepSparklePupa]

I don't know. I think I could get used to referring to my 3-gig barton kicking pentium ass.

 

[NFS4]

Here's another link:

http://www.ebnews.com/digest/story/OEG20010504S0085