Your scenario doesn't make Intel look any better. You're basically saying that Intel is screwing over its third party chipset and mobo people along with its OEMs *again* after already revising the socket 478 power specs once before. It's bad business to hold off on the launch of a major product until after Christmas just to make things smooth for a chip that might come out 6-12 months later. Can't buy this--they could easily revise the spec then when it's needed and not sacrifice now.
That is, unless Prescott is embarassingly slow now and they can't make it sellable without exceeding the already heightened power spec. Then your scenario would work :)
chipguy, your statment should shed a whole new light on the discussion about the 89W Opteron figure that some here argued so vehemently could not possibly be a platform figure, but that it had to be the figure for the fastest CPU at release. Paul
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