The Core Dump
It updates the blog, or it gets the hose again.
Begin world domination
The Intel Mini arrived today. You know, people can chart and graph benchmarks all they want—when you go from a dual-gig Windtunnel to a Dual Core, things become pretty damn impressively Snappy™.
So here goes my mini-review after about an hour of poking the Intel Mini: “OMFG ITS TEH R0X0RING SNAPPY!!!1 LOL.”
It’s probably a good thing I’m easily amused…
Update: After logging some quality Mini time, two more impressions:
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Rosetta is the enemy of the snappy. Neither Ecto nor NetNewsWire, the two non-Apple applications I probably use the most on a home computer, have been Intelified, and they both feel like they are running on a mid-level G4 chip. Rosetta is a tour de force of technology, but you very much do feel the difference.
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Sitting three feet from your computer with a remote control paging through your iTunes library with Front Row is, for a few minutes at least, oddly compelling.
Soundtrack: “House of Sorrows” by Funker Vogt 
Posted Wednesday, 08 March, 2006 by Nic Lindh
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