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Actually, I seriously wouldn't be surprised to see the prices take a huge dip after about 3-4 weeks once the market is saturated with them. Those initial release prices are not bad at all! Once retailers have to compete, we'll see some excellent prices, and hopefully, once more benchmarks emerge, we'll even see comparable if not better performance to the C2Qs.
My only concern here is that AMD is playing an old card and being overly optimistic. Yes, they benefited when Intel tried to jump on to dual-core quick by merging two single-cores to make the Pentium D and AMD released their true-dual-core Athlon X2s which did in fact perform better, however, this time around, two fused dual cores (C2Qs) might actually pull out here, rather than AMD's true-quad. I know there's much more to what actually determines performance, but AMD's really touting the whole "true quad-core" thing and it's a bit worrisome, for me at least.
My only concern here is that AMD is playing an old card and being overly optimistic. Yes, they benefited when Intel tried to jump on to dual-core quick by merging two single-cores to make the Pentium D and AMD released their true-dual-core Athlon X2s which did in fact perform better, however, this time around, two fused dual cores (C2Qs) might actually pull out here, rather than AMD's true-quad. I know there's much more to what actually determines performance, but AMD's really touting the whole "true quad-core" thing and it's a bit worrisome, for me at least.