Just got my 1ghz tbird. So I'm at least a couple years away at this point. At that time I'll buy whatever gives me the best current performance for the $. By that time software should be JUST comming out to take advantage of the needed intel software tweaks to take advantage of their new p4 design. But then again by then AMD could have something completely different available. Anyway, best choice right now with the poor P4 performance in some applications and the price of current Tbirds. AMD is the choice.