This will always happen though . Then amd will make something better than intels offering . Its always gonna be a give and take thing at the top end of thet cpu market but there is one place intel is not competing with AMD which is in the budget dual core arena . When come to think of it how many general home users out there need a core 2 duo and 2 gigs of ram . Not many i know of mostly they still use celeron D's and P4's so when they want dual core they want a cheap dual core system AMD is the one to buy there no denying that