[rmlew]

I was comparing apples to apples, ie all in ones with notebook subsystems.
And I'd take an i-7 2500K over a vanilla 2600. Of course, i don't plan on building until the fall. Waiting for the Z68 motherboards and for USB3 headers to be properly implemented. I figue that NVidia will have relieves its 6xx series graphics cards by then too.

[dennisw]

I usually build with AMD but if I were buying or building Intel I would only get a Sandy Bridge processor. Not the first gen i3, i5, i7. In fact I am tempted to build a Sandy Bridge desktop computer