Well, Intel Bears have had Goldman helping them out.
I've decided not to buy any computers in the near-term. I have Windows XP VMs that I use to work from home and my wife's system is an old Merom running Windows XP that is going to be retired. I am going to give her my 27 inch iMac (2010 with a Merom processor - Apple can really take their time upgrading processors) and buy a third monitor to go with my Nehalem desktop and I will be replacing the Windows XP VM with an Ubuntu VM. I spent some time last night getting it integrated with our office environment. I will do the same thing with my MacBook Pro (move from Windows XP VM to Ubuntu VM).
There's nothing wrong with many of these systems that are 5-7 years old from what we need from them. I could replace anything at any time because I feel like it but it would be work buying new software licenses, reinstalling stuff and moving stuff over which I don't want to deal with in the near term.
I imagine that there are others going through this process as well though most probably won't change operating systems over the Windows XP demise.
I think that Intel is great in servers. We use tons of them here and they use tons of them at my son's workplace. Can growth in servers overcome the longer replacement cycle in the consumer market?
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