Predictions, Predictions, Hear all about it! 2007

So, 2006 is over man! I'd like to look forward and make some predictions for 2007 if I may:

- Intel and AMD will have same market shares as the one exitting 2006. Why, you say? Well, mainly because of OEMs, not because of technology! IBM/HP/Lenovo/Dell will pit Intel against AMD and vice versa. They will squeeze more money of their bottom lines. Intel and AMD will sell more but make less!

- Dell will not recover the #1 PC company spot from HP. Not even with AMD. Why, you say? Well, Apple is a bigger problem for Dell than HP and Dell will still have the same crappy customer support and cheap laptops that decompose in month #2 after purchase. Apple will creep up on Dell like the Japanese cars creeped up into America's big 3 auto-companies market.

- nVidia seems to gain the most in 2007.

- Voodoo PC is dead for sure in 2007. Rahul will even stop posting his blogs!

- Google will start losing steam. I would sell my google shares now except I do not have any.

- Yahoo will continue to decline.

- Vista will not pick up sales as fast as window 2000

- Microsoft Zune. What was that again? Microsoft will not try this again!

- Play station 3 will be the hottest seller in Q4. Xbox 360 will go back to 0.

So those are my 2 cents on 2007. What are your predictions?

What is happening on Rahul's and Sharikou's Blogs?

I am pretty sure some of you have noticed some weird things happening on blogspot.com recently. Rahul's blog has been pretty dull and boring. People are complaining that he has flipped from being free (somewhat) spirited person to a person who works for the "man". He no longer speaks his mind and kisses up HP fat A$$ in public so bad, it is not funny..

As for Sharikou, he has retracted quite a few stories recently from his blog. His blog seems to get duller, too: No new stories for a while. I als0 could not believe the advertising of Intel products on his blog, either!

Are free bloggers disappearing? Any conspiracy theories?

Is the 4x4 an AMD fluke?

I have been following up with the latest AMD 4x4 and I gotta say: it does not look hot so far. Many issues seem to haunt AMD which used to haunt Intel for the last 3 years: Power consumption, noise, price, performance.

Does this product seem to you an out of character of AMD? It does to me!
So, why did AMD introduce such a product? Will this product take off? Did AMD hope that its loyal customers will buy it anyway? Or is it just a desparate move to spoil Kentsfield party?

I am afraid that this product's halo effect may hurt AMD's image. It reminds me of what the Pentium D did to Intel.

What do you think?