I feel "speculation-jipped"

Sort of. Nehalem rocks.

Yes. Also, we know nothing about how either of them run, but Snow Leopard is being written to take advantage of Nehalem.

 

Snow Leopard is intended to be released this spring. Apple hasn't said anything different so far.

 

But this in no way means Snow Leopard wont run properly on current gen MacBooks.

 

It's technology, yes it will work faster in the future, but can/do you really need to wait? Does the product they have now address your needs?

With Nehalem it's obviously not going to get worse or slower...

On a side not, when is Nehalem supposed to be released? Googling it brings up that it was released last year, am I lost?

 

Yes, of course!

Nehalem Gainestown Xeon chips go into production this month. A Nehalem Mac Pro should follow 6-8 weeks after.

Nehalem mobile chips go into production Q3 or Q4, meaning the iMac and MacBook family should get them in Q4 or Q1 2010.

 

FYI I wasnt trying to say you didnt know that, I was just stating that fact for other people who read this.

 

Oh, I know. I was just stating that to confirm that other people knew that you knew that I knew that.

Wait...

I'm sick of talking about Nehalem. Someone needs to break into Intel's manufacturing plant and turn the machines on.

 

I wouldnt worry about getting a pre nehalem processor in your macbook, the first few months of nehalems wont be stable anyway, and they only deliver a 15% performance increase overall when utilising all cores. They do however sacrifice this for heat, which i dont know how Apples going to deal with as the Macbooks and especially Macbook Pro's are already practially melting but i guess we'll see. The nehalems are also slightly bigger too than the cores i believe.

 

My theory is...

Buy a computer when needed and never wait for what is coming or what you think is coming.

 

So you'd tell people to buy a Mac Mini now.

That's painfully silly.