[jennyfur]

LOL... I was bored and surfing around on tom's hardware site and found out I was more right about the processor race constantly switching hands than I thought.

about 2 weeks ago AMD came outta nowhere with the athlon xp 2600+, beating intel's best offering. it used their recently released thoroughbred core and could handle being overclocked.

THEN, a mere 5 days later intel launched their P4 2.8, beating AMD down again.

Due to the overclocking ability of the 2600+, AMD is rumored to be going for 2800+ in october. and you know intel will have something to fight back with like a P4 3066 (although I still can't seem to help noticing the huge price differences...and that's an unbiased opinion, it's just a fact that intel is hundreds more)

and this sort of thing is bound to happen over and over again. it's just an ever flip-flopping quest for speed that doesn't seem to have an end. and I think the only people who really care about having whatever is fastest are the ones that:

1. have a lot of money
2. just like bragging rights for being the "first" with something (even though in no time flat something better will come out)

the articles are interesting from a technology standpoint just to see how development progresses these days though:

http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/02q3/020826/index.html
(this article is about the P4 taking the lead, but it's interesting no matter which company you may "side" with if any)