And if he responded, "you should be fine—the i7 is only necessary for emacs"?

I'd say who paid you to say that? :)

Sorry, tried to look it up but too many false positives; What is Panic?

Really? But they have the most obvious url: http://panic.com/ :P

Yeah - But you said you were asked what apps... then said Panic -- I saw that co - but thought, "this isn't an app, so Ill go ask for clarification"

Yes but that's a company, not a single application. I thought the original commenter might be referring to an obscure command-line tool called 'panic' or something.

Yikes....mystery meat buttons.

Fair enough, though, at least they have tooltips and are screen reader accessible. (I work in accessibility and a lot of things make me cry. :( )

What application is "Panic"?

Assuming Panic Software products, or the whole suite. Most popular likely being Coda: http://panic.com/coda/

I am not sure if this is the same Panic but there is a company called Panic that makes great Mac Applications: Transmit and Coda are their most famous apps.

It's like when someone says their web browser is called "Mozilla".

Could also be habit?

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Application_Suite> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netscape_Communicator>