Just a little info on how Intel made their CPU's before the Prescott came out.
To get the speed they wanted, they just crammed more and more transistors onto the CPU in the same small space untill heat became such an issue (that 3.2 GHZ proc can actually cook an egg overeasy if you turned off the cooling fan, and with the fan turned on, keep your coffee warm, thats how hot they run). They kept doing this until they got to the 3.5 ghz mark when they actually realized that a slower processor (About 2.8 ghz) ran the same speed as their new 3.5, and realized that they had gone compleatly down the wrong road in processor design, so they turned to their mobile chip, which ran pretty dam fast for a Labtop Proc, infact, Asus sold adaptors so that people could put them on their PC's, and poof, the Core Duo was born, and when they Dual cored it, it kicked the **** out of AMD, which held the crown for fastest proc for almost 2 years.
If you're a hard core Intel fan, and have the money to upgrade your motherboard for a new Proc every generation, get the Core Duo, its currently the fastest proc on the market.
However, keep an Eye on AMD, they got something up their sleve. Their recent buy out of ATi, and several proprietary RAM companies (Who made ram for game consoles) while having money issues (They recently cut production of their higher L2 cache procs for their lower mid range ones to save money in production), has to ammount to something for such a gamble.
and PRH99, when MaximumPC built their Ultiment gaming Rig in one of their previous issues, they went with the Core Duo, and it Kicked the pants off all the AMD rigs they had in every benchmark, which surprised and saddened them, the AMD Fanboys they are.
and before you start calling me an Intel fanboy, I'm a proud owner of a AMD Athlon 64
