It's disappointing that more than 2 years later, the sensible price/performance CPU is only about twice as fast as my existing CPU. As commented on in comp.arch, CPU performance is starting to hit limits of viability.
I also noticed how long-lived the PCI bus has been. When I bought my first PC in 1993, there was a choice between PCI or VL-BUS for the new, fast replacement for ISA (I, of course, looked carefully at the options and chose VL-BUS). Ten years later, PCI is still just about OK for most things in a home PC other than graphics (where it's been replaced by AGP for a few years now).
Update…
While I'm PC narging, I've just read that the new Intel core has been delayed. That might give AMD a bit of a break for getting Athlon 64 established.
