Quote Originally Posted by safan80 View Post
AMD needs to be a challenge? ... no not just a challenge, they need a penryn killer. unless they start making 1watt cpus AMD will be like they were when I had my last intel system. they need to come up with a good performance reason for people to buy their cpus and gpus again.
It would be nice if Barcelona was Penryn killer but what are the chances? They need to stay at least competitive in higher mainstream/highend otherwise AMD becomes a company selling low-end bang for the buck alternatives to Intel chips. Still lots of OEM builders would use them due to the price and efficiency.

People are not only about performance, most of them don't even know what are they buying. Kuma @1.9 GHz(45W) is still a luxury for people browsing web, listening to music, watching movies and ocasionally playing games. It's not just power users out there.