Yeah, but this thread isn't about [H] and their hype about a Bulldozer meeting/event and then not meeting expectations. Not that I know of, anyway.
And to be honest, I couldn't really care less if they control the Enthusiast market. The Performance market, which is already much smaller than Mainstream, will give them more profits and more affordable (under $350) CPUs. Very few people, even here, want to purchase extremely expensive platforms with features almost no one will use and CPUs costing upwards of $500. As long as they're very competitive in the Performance market, I'm happy.
It already caught on, I think. Ontario and Zacate are selling in the millions and are taking away valuable market share from Atom. Llano has a lot of design wins with many OEMs and almost all of the main ones have announced new laptops based on it.
Why are you complaining when you're not the intended market? If your job depends on it you're supposed to buy a CPU in the Performance market, not the Mainstream. Also, Llano (the desktop version, that is) is very competitive with Core i3 on multi-threaded apps. If you're talking the mobile version then that's another story since Llano is around 20% slower in multi-threaded apps. With both versions, though, one thing you do get is 2x higher GPU performance.