Dated? Yeah... Hyperthreading actually decreases performance and has security flaws. AMD's Barton core allows 4 threads, instead of 2, and is faster. I've not heard a single security problem with the AMD barton's. Besides, AMD is using slower clockspeeds and still matching performance with Intel ... so who's better? Brute force or finesse?

Though I'll admit the Pentium1 233mhz was the most sable CPU ever...

I love AMD and will be using nVidia at my next upgrade. I've had it with ATI thus far.