I agree, and it's why the wise man is earnestly hopeful that amd can get it's cpu act together in the reasonably near future. I've done my part by buying from them when they had something that would do the job well enough. Only other thing I can do is hope. I'm not looking forward to an Intel only desktop cpu world.
While my professional career benefits greatly on Intel being the top IC producer (hires thousands of electricians to build fabs in Hillsboro OR), I absolutely do not want to see them be the only player in the desktop market. Prices will skyrocket. All of you who keep spelling doom and gloom for AMD will no longer be able to afford enthusiast pricing on their top tier chips. If it wasn't for AMD those i3's would be at the maximum the market would bear, which is likely around $400-600 a chip at this time. i7? You'll have to max out a couple credit cards.
As a consumer I absolutely loathe the day Intel gets a two generation lead on desktop parts over AMD. For work I know it'll help provide for thousands of us tradesmen. It's a double edge sword that if it goes in either direction will negatively impact us.
As stated long ago in the thread, AMD is relatively keeping intel honest in their pricing. I didn't have a big budget for an upgrade from my C2Q system back in August, and the only thing that had an reasonable pricing and acceptable performance on it was a $125 FX-8350. It was either that or an i3 which is not threaded well enough for what my current and projected uses.
Photoshop, 60hz gaming, heavy browser work, video editing, game streaming... their products fill everyday uses exceptionally at a very low cost. I absolutely know I'd have been fine with an i7 and most likely an i5 in 99% of cases, but the price point of an i3 vs FX in terms of performance was a no brainer.