Oh well Im already getting "a fantastic experience with" a Q6600 and I only payed $199.99 for it. Then I see today that the rest of the Intel 45nm quads are FINALLY shipping.
Same here—I just bought mine on Monday. I would've liked to go with AMD, but the TLB bug was a showstopper. So, a Q6600, a new motherboard, 4 gigs of RAM, and a new video card (my old one was a GeForce MX from 2002), for a little under $500.
And, frankly, I like Intel a lot better than I used to these days, because they release so much stuff as open source. When I needed a new laptop in the fall of 2006, that's what decided me: the only way to get a laptop with WiFi that was well-supported on Linux was to get one with an Intel 3945 or 4695 (since Intel maintains the drivers), which meant an Intel CPU.
(Intel does other stuff, too, not just drivers for their hardware; I'm using their computer vision package in a project for work.)
With Intel pulling ahead in performance, and getting ready to release CPUs based on a switched fabric like HyperTransport, I think AMD is going to have to scramble pretty hard to catch up. I hope they do, but I'm not too confident.
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Oh well Im already getting "a fantastic experience with" a Q6600 and I only payed $199.99 for it. Then I see today that the rest of the Intel 45nm quads are FINALLY shipping.
Same here—I just bought mine on Monday. I would've liked to go with AMD, but the TLB bug was a showstopper. So, a Q6600, a new motherboard, 4 gigs of RAM, and a new video card (my old one was a GeForce MX from 2002), for a little under $500.
And, frankly, I like Intel a lot better than I used to these days, because they release so much stuff as open source. When I needed a new laptop in the fall of 2006, that's what decided me: the only way to get a laptop with WiFi that was well-supported on Linux was to get one with an Intel 3945 or 4695 (since Intel maintains the drivers), which meant an Intel CPU.
(Intel does other stuff, too, not just drivers for their hardware; I'm using their computer vision package in a project for work.)
With Intel pulling ahead in performance, and getting ready to release CPUs based on a switched fabric like HyperTransport, I think AMD is going to have to scramble pretty hard to catch up. I hope they do, but I'm not too confident.