Chief Gadgeteer of RealTechNews writes:

In case you’ve been hiding under a rock for the past month or so, you most certainly know about the launch of Apple’s new Macs with Intel Core Duo processors in them. So far, the iMac desktop is available in both 17″ and 20″ versions. The MacBook Pro notebook is due out this month. If you’ve been considering getting one of these new iMacs or perhaps the MacBook Pro, you may want to re-consider or at least wait for a few months. Why? Well, Apple essentially had to re-write applications to perform natively on the Intel iMac. Those that have not been re-written as of yet need to go through a software translator called Rosetta. This slows things down, especially for resource intensive applications (ex: Photoshop). And 3rd-party software vendors are still playing catch up to get their apps optimized for the new iMacs. There is a minor bit of controversy in Apple claiming that the new Intel iMacs are 2-3 times faster than an iMac G5, and while it’s not a complete lie, MacWorld made sure to get into raw performance numbers and show how things really pan out.

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