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A great editorial written by a very good friend of mine Jonathan….

First thing I saw that snared my interest was the introduction of the new Intel iMacs (I’m a hardware whore). The fact that Apple recently realigned the ports on the machine in their last refresh should have been a clue as to its near future. But what I noticed next was pretty interesting.

The statistics from the Apple website for the iMac and form the stevenote itself says that the new iMacs are 2x to 3x faster than previous ones. Now after researching the new Core Duo chips on Intel’s website, Apple’s website and elsewhere around the net, nowhere did it mention whether the new Intel was 32 or 64 bit. After trying to look into the subject a friend of mine let me know that they are in fact 32bit, which it an odd choice because it would seem as a downgrade to the 64bit G5’s that Steve Jobs touted as the best newest processors when he inaugurated the “64bit revolution� more than two years ago.

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