[jeepnut]

If I was buying now, I probably wouldn't be questioning it. However, my purchase is still 4 to 6 maybe more months down the road. I'm not really worried about the processor being fast enough. I know that there will always be faster processors just month's after I get mine and I can deal with that. What I'm really worried about though, is heat and battery life. I hear current Powerbooks will make you wish you had asbestos thighs and that the battery life is acceptable but far less than one would like at about 3 hours. (Even though Apple claims 5.) I'd like to be able to watch a movie on the battery and still have enough juice to do some web-surfing or word-processing before I have to plug back in when traveling. At 3 hours, this would cut it close. In addition, I've read in many reviews that when watching DVDs, battery life is actually closer to 2 and a half hours.

The main reason I would want to wait for the Intel switch is because the Intel processors are supposed to at least partly solve the heat/battery life problem. After all, this is that prime reason that Apple is switching. They can't get the G5 to run cool enough or efficiently enough for laptops.

Anyway, my schedule would put me about 6 or so months from when the first Mactels ship (June 2006). It's my guess and it seems a lot of online sites think so as well, that the first Mactels are likely to be laptops. Specifically the Powerbook line. They do seem to be the most in need of a new brain.

Naturally also, I wouldn't really want to get the first iteration of the new PBs, but part of me wants to wait and see what improvement there is if any. I'm almost sold on getting a Power PC instead of waiting, but I'm just trying to get as many opinions as I can. Thanks for your answers so far.

/me pushes Xantar some more.