I have always bought last year's "hot" CPU after they drop the price by 50-70% as the roll-out of newer products force price drops. I am also staying with the XP OS for now, Vista will be buggy for another year or two and why go with it at all, seems to add very little. On the stock side of AMD, I would tend to agree that it has another up cycle coming. The market/industry does not want to have INTC as the only CPU supplier.