I personally don't think AMD is "dancing on Intel's grave." As much as I love (and try to buy) AMD's excellent CPUs, as you noted, the latest Ryzen 5000 series

I personally don't think AMD is "dancing on Intel's grave." As much as I love (and try to buy) AMD's excellent CPUs, as you noted, the latest Ryzen 5000 series are in very limited supply, and I found the same with the Ryzen 4000 laptop chips all year. I eventually got an HP Omen 15 which I'm pretty happy with, but I'll remain bitter that options with brighter and/or faster screens or beefier graphic cards were never an option, and what options I had were often hard to find. As for the i9-10900K, if you check out a review from launch [0], you'll see nothing but good things to be said about the performance, with a very large trade-off of being a ridiculously power hungry, heat-producing CPU. If you're OK with that, then you're probably perfectly happy with the Intel CPU. For me, a cool and quiet CPU that can still smash my parallel processing needs and meet my gaming needs is a better sweet spot. [0] https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/intel-core-i9-10900k-cpu-review/2 https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/intel-core-i9-10900k-cp...