Well the kicker is I thought I remembered Kyle being somewhat optimistic. I think that's what made me wait on upgrading to Core2, until finally seeing the final hard numbers.
You did well to wait on a Wolfie anyway. In mid 2007, Intel was slipping Allendales into traditional conroe spots of e6300 and e6400 (because of the 2M cache) and they just can't reach the heights of the original Conroes.