As apple is planning on moving to x86 on the low end first, that chip does look like a good idea, powerful and low heat. Also by selling chips with low clocks like that it means that intel can build up an inventory of faster clocked chips by speed binning them appropriately so when the whole mac line is moved to x86 they will be able to introduce much higher speed chips.

Either way though, as soon as longhorn is out, the whole reason for buying a mac: OSX will be a moot point considering the only thing OSX really has over windows at the moment is that it looks pretty...