People will buy amd processors right now because
1. they have a am2 motherboard already.
2. they are hopeing am2+ lasts awhile and I guess that is the plan like you said. Plus the performance difference isn't huge in games so its not a huge lost in performance to a lot of people.
3. they are amd fanboys / or intel haters.
If I had a am2 board I wouldn't jump to Intel. But if building a whole new computer right now I would probably jump to Intel because IIRC its going to be another year before they switch sockets and if I bought a cpu now I probably wouldn't need to upgrade again for a while. And by then a bunch of new stuff could be out and ddr3 may be the norm so I would need a new board anyway.
1. they have a am2 motherboard already.
2. they are hopeing am2+ lasts awhile and I guess that is the plan like you said. Plus the performance difference isn't huge in games so its not a huge lost in performance to a lot of people.
3. they are amd fanboys / or intel haters.
If I had a am2 board I wouldn't jump to Intel. But if building a whole new computer right now I would probably jump to Intel because IIRC its going to be another year before they switch sockets and if I bought a cpu now I probably wouldn't need to upgrade again for a while. And by then a bunch of new stuff could be out and ddr3 may be the norm so I would need a new board anyway.