[citation][nom]brimur[/nom]What I would prefer is to buy a system that will allow me to upgrade the CPU again in 12 - 18 months. If dev for 1155 stops in Q1 then I would prefer to wait till 1150 comes out.[/citation]
p67 motherboards released in March 2011. According to your argument "update the cpu in 12-18 months", you can update a sandybridge cpu to ivybridge. because 12 - 18 months from march 2011 is, march 2012 to September 2012. You can even update it after 24 months, March 2013.
If you think intel could have kept the 775 chipset for all the cpus. Hmm... think about crappy NB & FSB, no sata III, no usb 3.0, no eSATA, No DMI etc etc..,