I think the most important question is what this guy is sitting on right now in terms of a computer. I think the new M2 platform will be an incremental increase at best, akin to the P4 going from 400 Mhz FSB to 533 Mhz FSB. I know alot of people who kicked themselves in the butt for not waiting for the 800 Mhz bus chips (not to mention hyperthreading) If you look at the history of both CPU companies, they never let the cat out the bag all at once. They release new CPUs or platforms that increase performance by around 3-5% each time. Did DDR-2 help out prescott? In some cases no. Think about it like this: 130 nm, 1600 Mhz hyperthreading, Single channel DDR support, Single channel memory control. Sound familiar? Socket 754. Fast foward a bit and you get 2000 Mhz HT, Dual channel DDR support, dual channel mem cotroller, 90 nm and you get Socket 939 winchester chips. Take the winchester add in an improved architecture, SSE3 support, and a more efficient mem controller and you get todays venus core 939 A64s. It was a few years in the making. Knowing all of this, would you have bought a winchester or a newcastle chip? Is a winchester that much better than a clawhammer clock for clock? Think about the jerk who invested in 533 Mhz DDR2 for the prescott only to see 667 Mhz mobos released after awhile. Now imagine the jerk who bought the new 667 Mhz DDR-2 and then saw no discernable improvement.......IMHO, I would overclock the living hell out a 939 until it blows rather than buy a M2 and have to go from 533, to 667, to 800 Mhz DDR2. Then you have to worry about the first M2s being 90 nm, What about the 65 nm CPUs? New chip, new mobo, maybe new RAM...... Not a smar way to spend money. As long as this guy isnt sitting on a willamette core P4, a 1300 Mhz thunderbird, an XP 1800 or some crap, I would say he is ok for another year. Whats the hurry?