I've never had a complaint with Intel, but don't really care. Who ever has the best at a reasonable amount

There's the upcoming Intel Auburndale slated for 2009 that is supposed to have something like 10ghz too

 

I think your thinking of the Westmere chips (comes out in 2009), because I'm pretty sure Auburndale is just a mobile version of the Nehalem CPU. I've heard Intel plans to have chips down to 22nm by 2011 with like twelve processing cores running at 4+Ghz, along with 2,000Mhz+ front side bus, and a massive amount of cache memory.

 

True both will due what you want easily, as for vista, ive heard that they are making a replacement supposed to be out in like 2009 or something
all xp here,lol

 

Right now unless you're going for a very basic rig go with Intel and don't settle for anything less than Core 2 Duo, preferably Core 2 Quad if you can afford it, it's not much more. I'm an AMD guy myself but considering the price/performance right now it just doesn't make sense not to go Intel. Incidentally the Q6600 quad core can be overclocked a good bit without much hassle.

 

I deleted Vista on my Dell laptop and went back to XP Pro, it is soooo much faster, and everything works as it should.

 

Yep "Windows 7" will be out around the end of 2009/beginning of 2010...