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Well the windows machine would turn into a doorstop because of spyware, worms, and viruses with in a week making the mac a clear choice. What an idiotic article, I'll save you the bandwidth of yanking you out of my RSS feed.

I'd be willing to bet money that the PowerMac will be on of the last machines to get an intel processor. For the course of the next year at a minimum the 64 bit versions of Intel's processors are going to be drawing about 145W of power per socket. The current line of products (3.xGHz/2MB) draws about 110W a socket. Unfortunately Apple doesn't have a lot of info but IBM's info on the 2.2GHz 970FX shows max at 65 deg C of power draw is 31W. I don't think dual core 2.5's is going to draw much more than 60w a socket. But that's a guess at this point. Future Intel dual core chips are supposed to be on 65nm process which will drop the power draw some. I'm willing to bet Apple will wait for those chips which are 4Q06 or later. The notebook is what they're worried - their high volume product. The PowerMac will be one of the latter, if not last models moved over to EM64T Intel chips.

I'm sure most flash memory makers ultimate goal is to become the next hard disk technology. There have been numerous industry articles talking about replacing hard drives in notebooks with flash drives. We're probably a few years away from it but once it happens, you'll see them everywhere. For me the Nano while cool looking, is too small. I'm weird and I like to have 1000s of songs (5887 at last count) on my iPod so I can take months before I hear the same song again if I so want. The 2GB and 4GB systems are too small for me. But it's sure a pretty device.