Today, for $2,000, I can get a new computer with the following:

• 24” LCD screen
• Two 64-bit CPUs
• 1 GB RAM
• 250 GB SATA hard drive
• Dual-layer-burning DVD-ROM
• Wireless ethernet and Bluetooth.

In 1996, for $2,000, I could get:

• 2 GB hard drive

It’s really just not fair in some fashion, and, yet, completely cool.

Oh, yeah, there’s some new iMacs out. Suddenly a lot of the focus on 64-bit at WWDC (as evidenced in the public keynote…) makes sense now. With 64-bit units in granny’s hands, it makes a lot of sense to really ensure that code will run well on it.

Yaaay. More work.