I have heard it mentioned time and time again that Intel seems to perform better and be more stable than AMD. Whereas the benchmarks for AMD are always marketably higher than INTEL. I could not understand why people were having processor specific issues. x86 is x86 right? Then I ran accross this today on Slashdot and I thought back to all those AMD vs Intel posts here and on DNA. http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/05/07/12/1320202.shtml?tid=142&tid=118&tid=123 I am a Mac person so I don't favor one over the other. I have heard that AMD benchmarks leaps and bounds above Intel but that AMD has stability issues. It should be interesting to see how this lawsuit plays out.