Fair point Zen, and trance, every company does have to have a little bs, against Intel that's the only way to survive. There really is no way Intel could justify the price tag of some of their "best" cpus. The rumour about the prescott being 64bit capable and ready was probably leaked by Intel in the first place, because someone somewhere would probably be able to mod it. But Intel couldn't, only way to stop everyone buy AMD 64's ready for longhorn (even though we know thats a way off now, 2006-2007) plus the fact even if the prescott was modded or already ready for 64bit action, Intel knew it would be outdated by the time longhorn arrived anyway so they wouldn't have to worry about anything as Smithfield and the like would be ready to go.