> The biggest thing that makes me skeptical is that they're rumoured to be > talking to /Intel/. Now, if they were taking to AMD I'd be much more > inclined to believe this - the Opteron is hot stuff.
Same here. I just dropped an Athlon 64 3000+ into my PC because it's 64-bit and some of the programs I currently run there will benefit greatly. Intel doesn't even have a consumer level 64-bit chip shipping as far as I'm aware.

