When will XP/x64 hit the stores ?

[Yadayada]

New E core AMD 64 cpu's now have the wondrous xyz-who-cares extensions
that help with encoding.

Buy the AMD.

INTEL has sunk too deep into it's own bullshit marketing culture and
Ottellini will be selling his stock on the sly.

I agree that for the huge maority of apps, AMD64 is a considerably better
choice. Even though the new cores have SSE3, the Intel still is a good bit
better at encoding. Encoding is of of those things that pays little
attention to anything but raw MHz. I still suggest the AMD to anyone, unless
the will be doing strictly encoding or mostly encoding with their machine.
Even with the new cores, the gap is still there.

 

[zzipper]

Running software like VMWare is one situation where Intel makes a
difference. I switched to an A64 on my main workstation about 2 months ago
and I took a serious performance hit when running this app. Other than that,
it's rocket fast and hasn't had any glitches at all but hyperthreading did
actually make a difference with this app. I'm waiting for the dual-core's to
be out and will probably move up to that, should eliminate the issue.