I'm doing software work on the damn things and boy do they suck! Compilation of programs that take 20 and 35 minutes on my P3 700 take about 50 minutes and an hour and a half respectively on a 1 processor Itanic! Only with a 4 processor 733MHz model will an Itanic be able to perform a linux kernel compile as fast as my little P3.
And everything they say about the heat they produce is all too true. In an otherwise cool lab, I start sweating after a while when I'm working between two of the ugly beasts.
McKinley better be good because Merced is a total joke. I'm hoping something will raise out of the embedded world to challenge Intel. The power consumption for Itanics is just looney. It's certainly no poster child for efficiency.
Dave "LordBeatnik"