There are still machines out there promotes for gaming because they have a pair of 9500GTs in SLI; what the customer obtains is all the probable noise, heat and driver issues of several GPUs with none of the predictable presentation, despite of the CPU it has. That's why customers are puzzled.

In general though, I think this marketing plan creates some intelligence. I really don't care if AMD is annoying to unpack old tech, as long as it does what they say it can do; i.e. it will be fit for the reason for which it was purchased. Now, will the battery last through a four hour flight...?