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Joe, Re: If you want 64 bit and NX now, Prescott is not the answer, only Athlon64 is.

Any Prescott being made today is using the same stepping as Nocona, so they will have XD and EM64T capabilities in them, should Intel decide to launch these. Maybe the ones on the shelf will never get this capability, but the reason why we don't see XD and EM64T right now is because Intel has decided not to, not because they don't have it.