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Sarmad

When I said it is too early for conclusions, this applies for me as well. So below is just opinion.

Intel product is ready.
I don't like Barcelona. Without rationalizing it. It is just my impression from looking at the arch.
Intel leads the benchmarks currently. I can well imagine Barcelona will regain the Halo: Barcelona is a Vista-Product - and the benchmarks will be made on Vista. Then AMD will lead again. But I will still not like its arch. I could not care less than about benchmarks. And Intel probably won't care much as well. They want to make money. For their cashcows (Server, Business Clients and business notebooks) Vista is no issue for 07/08. Consumerspace, yes.

So, benchmarks aside, it depends which OS I run to say which architecture I prefer. And I never use Microsofts products before SP1. Maybe even SP2 for Vista.

K.