Well, No Vista For The Time Being......
Within the next year, Vista will unfortunately become harder and harder to avoid.
What exactly are the options for a single core processor at the moment?
More than likely only the Cedar Mill Celerons & P4s will remain in Intel's line.
The enthusiast community is not being catered to as much as they want to believe with regards to new processors. Before you try to rebut that statement, consider this.
Yes, there are still extreme editions of CPUs. Yes the new Intels are overclockable, but at the end of the day these are headed for high speed servers. The commercial market has more revenue to tap into than us guys.
The major car manufacturers maintain racing divisions (which operate at a loss), so that the status of being in the winners circle will translate to success at the dealerships.
The Intel C2Ds are partly earmarked for the HTPC market, high speed movie downloading and such. You have to admit, at least as many people watch movies as play games.
So, back to my original question, what are the options for a single core processor these day? I say if you can find one, grab it, they're probably not going to be around much longer.