Oh yeah.... I think they said all of us 1156 owners "would only need a simple bios update" to run Sandy Bridge. I sure miss seeing sockets with very long longevity like 775.
that is why i am so hesitant to upgrade my system. i do want pcie 3.0 for a little bit of future proofing but not if intel is going to drop support for it less than 2 years down the line. apparently the high end will be socket 2011 so thats another socket. if they would keep 1155 for the mainstream and 2011 for the performance/server market for a while i would be happen

i have an aging 775 dual core and im itching to upgrade