I don't know why you guys are complaining about prices of Barcelona series 2xxx. Probably you are comparing it with Single Socket C2Q or Single Socket Opteron?? I hoped everyone knows that for 2-way or 8-way CPUs you paying EXTRA!
BTW. For me launch price of slowest Barcelona is very good (low). Let me ask for comparison what was initial price for slowest C2D on launch (dual core)??