Wait until June before you buy your Macinteltosh

IF THE THOUGHT of buying a Core Duo Apple machine that can boot Windows XP is making you itchy to go buy one, hold your horses.

The price of Intel Core Duo chips is set to plummet on the 28th of May, and there's faster chips coming along anyroadmap. Those include the 2.33GHz T2700, but this is only the start of better things from Chipzilla later this year.

Number	Speed	Bus	Cache	Feb	May 28
T2600	2.16GHz	667	2MB	$637	$423
T2500	2GHz	667	2MB	$423	$294
T2400	1.83GHz	667	2MB	$294	$240
T2300	1.66GHz	667	2MB	$240
T2300E	1.66GHz	667	2MB		$209
T1400	1.83GHz Solo	667	2MB		$209
T1300	1.66GHz Solo	667	2MB	$209

The Merom processors, produced on 65 nanometre process technology, will have 4MB of cache, support 64-bitness and virtualisation, while the low voltage versions will have 800MHz buses, eventually. µ