In re: the Mac-Intel thing, we first find this, which is funny and familiar, since it looks like Mr Kottke bought at almost exactly the same time we did.

Of course, we assume he’s very tongue-in-cheek there, and that he knew, as we did, that MacWorld was coming up, and that he made his buying decision based on a number of factors. We further suspect that we may share as many as two such factors: first, that we needed the purchase in the 2005 tax year; and second, that we prefer not to be on the leading edge of a such a huge change.

Even so, the cries of Five! Times! Faster! might make us sadder if it weren’t for certain voices of reason. (In other words, those claims are based on some very biased tests geared toward multiprocessor (or dual-core) machines, and shouldn’t be used to compare performance of single-processor boxes to multi-processor ones.)