Ok, couple things. as far as the dell plays, intel sings comment = very funny
the following "now about HP..." HP already makes systems with AMD chips and they sell very well. I used to work at best buy a few years ago and that was in general the systems i pushed. I felt the emachines were too cheaply made, the compaq well enough said, the sony's are way overpriced. The HP was just the sweetspot of what we offered.
Also i never believed it for a minute considering i just read a article early this week in Tom's news that stated that Intel was lowering prices to KEEP Dell. Meaning that it is almost an obligation of Dell to stay with Intel at least for a little while longer.