I've been with the company for close to 5 years and the whole time we have released benchmarks with launch. We typically do something like a STREAM benchmark before launch, but that is only a memory bandwidth benchmark. If you look back you will see that this has been the case for quite some time.

Sandybridge is supposed to launch this week, I have not seen an official intel benchmark, have we? This is how the industry operates. We all remember Osborne, at least those of us that are old enough do.