If you haven’t made up your mind that Intel chips will “save” the Mac platform, Apple demoed the Intel-native version of Logic Pro 7 at NAMM today. How fast is it? Let’s just say I’m going to have to call that PowerBook of yours - yeah, the shiny 17″ version - a paperweight. Don’t go planning any Grammy’s, that’s for sure. The Intel version of Logic is doing things that weren’t even possible on PPC versions. To quote Bob Hunt, as he wowed the NAMM’ers with a session full of video and high-end effects: “None of these sessions would even run on a PowerBook.” (more)

AAAAAA I hate hate hate the period of time between the first and second revs of an insanely cool Apple product… Stories like this start to pop up and make your mouth water and your wallet itch.

I felt burned by purchasing a first rev ti-book several years ago though. The airport never worked well on it. And I let my guard down to buy my delicious 5G iPod. But why tempt fate? I’ll wait for a 2nd-gen mactel before emptying my bank account