The Rarely Updated Blog of Nate Warner

Although delivery times have slipped a bit for the MacBook Pro, customers who preorderd the laptop are getting faster computers than they bargained for.

The $2,499 MacBook Pro, which now sports a 2.0 GHz Intel Core Duo CPU, up from the previously announced 1.83 GHz processor, will ship later this week, Apple said. The less expensive $1,999 MacBook Pro, meanwhile, will be powered by a 1.83 GHz Core Duo, not the 1.67GHz processor originally specified. That model will begin shipping next week.

Customers can also custom order a MacBook Pro with the 2.16GHz Core Duo for an additional $300.

In other Intel Mac news, the cash prize created by a Houston, Tex.-based Mac user for creating the first dual-boot machine capable of starting up both Windows XP and Mac OS X has broken the $11,000 mark.

Colin Nederkoorn has raised $11,318 as of Monday, but has yet to award the prize for a dual-boot procedure.

I love that “hacking” has changed from being purely malicious to a tool that empowers consumers to control their products. This reminds me a bunch of the contest to unlock the Bluetooth on the Verizon Razor. Could this become an emerging trend?

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