Apple: Bring on more mobile intel Macs soon! While some people think that the intel iMac may only be marginally faster than the older G5 iMac (this, of course, changes drastically with time, as more software's available as universal binaries instead of running in emulation...), things are heavily different on the mobile computer front. It's easy math, really. If an intel iMac has roughly 200% the speed of a G5 iMac with native applications and 50% the speed with emulated ones, emulated applications should still definitely run faster on a MacBook Pro than on a venerable PowerBook G4. So while there's discussion on whether the iMac really profits from the move to intel (and I'm very pro intel here, since I don't think you should buy a Mac depending on yesterday's state of things), the mobile Macs really need to go intel as quickly as possible, and I hope our rumours are true that the turn of February to March will bring the MacBook (iBook replacement). Recent rumours on other sites suggest that Apple will also reveal a 17" MacBook Pro in the coming two months. - posted by Patrick Armbruster @ 23:43 [article link]