my thoughts exactly. and i think 'more fair' is an understatement. i'd say this news is meaningless until they compare d-wave to an optimized FPGA solution.

Sure but that's not the point here. The important thing is that this quantum computer actually WORKS. In 2 years classical computers will be maybe 5 times faster. But this quantum computer will be 1000s of times faster (at these specific problems) so very soon any comparison will be irrelevant.

also i'm pretty sure if we used a computer of the same size as the quantum one (a fairly large room) it may also have been a different story)