technobang

just when i thought i had found the best laptop ever in my 12″ powerbook G4 Apple made a deal with Intel and releases the MacBook Pro. Well looks like Powerbook is old school now, but oh well. Anyway, i’ve always found it amuzing when people automatically assume that Mac laptops are dual proc’s because many of the desktop Mac’s do. Well, this is now finally a reality, which is sweet. I can’t wait to try one, i’m willing to be it’ll beat the piss out of an incredibly exspensive Alienware Dual-Core notebook. Yeah, it’s obvious that they’re meant for different purposes, but for those of us who don’t game, let alone on the go, i think Intel’s Centrino based dualcore with OS X would be the shit on the go, for a traveling professional or a student. From what i’ve been told by Intel reps, that Intel has really been focusing on power consumption to performance, i.e. Centrino. Now that Centrino is going dual core, or “core dou” as they’ve been calling it, and going to 65nm these things are supposed to be about 5 times faster than my 11 month old Powerbook. Damn, the only thing that conforts me is how slow the software industry is and how long it’ll be before they A. Port already popular Mac apps to x86 code or B. attract new software vendors to write code, as Apple always has, and which we all know probably won’t happen. Hell, how many applications do you have on your PC that actually uses a lot of the hardware driven technologies that improve performance, like multi threading for SMP, dual-core, HT processors, SSE3, 3DNow! Professional, etc. I think these hardware changes are great and all, and will undoubtably improve performance, i’m just courious/concerned to see how long it’ll take the software industry to catch up to this rather fast start to 2006.

am i the only one looking forward to this year? vista? the apocalypse!?!

Apple DVR/OS X/XP/Vista/Linux, all on separate cores? ;-)