I thought I’d vent a bit about the fact that there is still no Merom-based Apple laptop. I was foolishly hoping that Apple would silently roll out Merom-based MacBook/MacBook Pros along with all the other goodies today, but no such luck. I wonder if the Inquirer is right in saying that there will be no Merom-based Apple laptops this year due to limited supply of the chip from Intel. That’d be a bummer, since I need to purchase a new laptop soon, and I was hoping it would be a Merom-based Apple laptop. Oh well, I can still wait it out a little longer.

Recently, Don MacAskill, the CEO of smugmug, wrote a review of Sun’s SunFire ‘CoolThreads’ T1000 Niagra based server. As someone who likes to keep up with interesting new processor designs, I was eager to see the results. Unfortunately, after reading the article, I had to ask, was it even worth doing the review?

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