I want to get this ramped up now!!! I want to go FASTER FASTER FASTER!!! WAH!!! Anyway, SuSE Linux 64 supports x86-64, and Windows XP 64 x86-64 edition is ready whenever AMD is, from what I've gathered. I want more speed, plain and simple. I want AGP 3.0 (I know you can get it now, but I don't want to waste more money doing an incremental upgrade). I want PCI-X. I want Hypertransport. I want big-busted women feeding me grapes! What they promised was a revolution in speed by, um, entire quarters ago, and now we get pushed back another year.
On another note,
www.amdzone.com has a story on DDR-II chipsets being released in Q2 of 2003. Further, Samsung is discontinuing SDRAM production and going strictly to DDR. Also, they are saying that DDR-II is backwards compatible. All of this points to the proposition that the Hammer is probably DOA if they indeed push this back until next Christmas.