After seeing some info in this thread I checked out a preliminary review of the i5.
Cherry picked cpu's is right. Getting well over 4Ghz ( 4.4 if memory serves) from one thats stock @ 2.6 seems a lil far fetched - especially when they made it sound so easy and they only had a cooler sitting ( un-clamped ) on it for cooling, with the fan removed. Smells like a strong dose of hype to me.
Being an AMD Fanboy I will be sticking with AMD. Less performance yes - albeit very comparable to Intel but far less cost. It is very nice however to see a less than 100Watt quad cpu. The 'expected' price is the $200 range , not bad.
Then again if I made an i7, downclocked it, then sold it, it would use less power and have amazing overclocking headroom.
kidding.
I am looking forward to seeing real world results from the
store bought i5's.