yep, thats why i have supported AMD for so long..
but having said that the Core2Quad(Kentsfield) will be my next chip :)
Indeed. I wasn't speaking directly to hardware, but the same thing applies there. I remember many moons ago. I had 2 386's in my office. They were identical in all respects except one thing. One had a Cyrix coprocessor, and the other was Intels. At the time Cyrix was advertizing them as being 30% faster than intel's offering. I used a program that was almost nothing but floating point math (fractint - a fractal generator) to benchmark them. Amazingly enough, the Cyrix was almost exactly 30% faster on deep zooms into the mandelbrot set.
The companies will push each other along. I really like that as a consumer.