Intel Mac comes very poor second to PPC

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I've already earmarked funds for a MacBook and Logic 7.2!

I'd wait until later in the year, looks like Intel's next gen are going to give AMD something of a problem...
Also looks like they should do fairly well on vectorised stuff (e.g. audio), the current gen isn't, if you look at the vector benchmarks it's the single area the G4 is ahead of the Core duo.

My GF isn't happy, for some reason she wants to waste my money on a house

In London?  -shudder-

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Someone mentioned the development of mmx from intel. I heard almost 10 years ago, that Intel came up with some software-multimedia package/routines and moco$oft told them, that with that software there was no need for win95 (there was no need, I used OS/2 at the time) and they will not sell it, so they would not allow that software to happen, so the Intel people came up with this "mm-software" inside the processor.

Intel put a lot of effort into producing a DSP library, Microsoft managed to talk Intel into killing it.