Intel Macs - Get One Now or Wait?

Wired.com has a good article on just this subject.

Here are some of the reasons to wait:

1) "Most applications that run in OS X Tiger are able to run on Intel hardware via an emulation layer called Rosetta, but there are a few exceptions, spelled out in Apple's Universal Binary Programming Guidelines"

Also check out MacFixIt.com

2) "Jobs demoed Photoshop at Macworld, but conceded that the application's performance is worse under Rosetta than the speeds offered by older PowerPC hardware."

This is to be expected has that move to the Intel Chipset. Apps will be redesigned to take advantage of the Intel code, but that will take time.

3) "Almost every version of Windows requires a BIOS to launch, and Apple's Intel Macs use Intel's new extensible-firmware interface (EFI) instead, which Windows XP doesn't support. Vista supposedly will, so it might be possible by the end of the year."

Dual-Booting with Windows XP and OS X is not currently possible. But in a non-official way, this may be open to some hackers before the public. There is a contest running right now. First person to provide the steps and pictures will get a prize. That prize is currently over 7000 dollars and likely to go higher.