Engadget had a story this week about a dual core atom chip available this year, that I assume would give enough power

Eh, there are rumors around the Net about iPhone on Intel, as if that elementary prognostication merited some frikkin applause.

If we were to see it in anything *this* year, it’d be an iPod Air.

And, dear god, maybe it *will* do the five hours the MacBook Air *can’t*.

Yes, but as I said in that post, it’s too early to judge the Atom. My expectation is that it will be powerful enough for Eee-like notebooks and lightweight OS handhelds. The obvious benefit is longer battery life. There will be usable devices for this chip, but not likely desktop-replacement types of devices. That’s not what these are meant to power. I wouldn’t be surprised to see this in a future version of the iPhone to be honest.

Isn’t this the same chip you recently showed a benchmark for? The one that was less powerful than a 900MHz Pentium?

So we can look forward to several years of people cursing these portable devices as I cursed the Finnish Abomination?

Ah, heaven for me!