Re: My guess would be that if you had a choice between massively better marketing and better engineering, you'd pick the latter. Like it or not, it's the former that sells.
Why pick one or the other when you can have both? I think the people on this thread are going to be very surprised with what Intel delivers in terms of this year's products. And what's more, things like Viiv are going to blow them away, when they finally realize what it is.