Wait until June before you buy your Macinteltosh
 

At least

IF THE THOUGHT of buying a Core Duo Apple machine that can boot Windows XP is making you itchy to go buy one, hold your horses. The price of Intel Core Duo chips is set to plummet on the 28th of May, and there's faster chips coming along anyroadmap. Those include the 2.33GHz T2700, but this is only the start of better things from Chipzilla later this year

The Merom processors, produced on 65 nanometre process technology, will have 4MB of cache, support 64-bitness and virtualisation, while the low voltage versions will have 800MHz buses, eventually.