Amen! I hope the new Intel Macs fly off the shelves the way that iPods have been in recent years. Stock analysts keep under-forecasting the price of Apple's stock, term after term, and I hope that the ability to run Windows natively on a hard disk partition of the new Macs will lure millions of former PC owners in the years to come. Then, only price will be holding them back from doing so, as they'd no longer have any excuse to buy a non-Apple computer.

Yeah, the price of getting a copy of Windows to install on that partition might hold them back!!

Mac hardware will make a 2-fold increase next year with the Intel products allowing anyone to run Windows, Linix or OS X on the best hardware in the business. iPod sales will continue to cream the competition.

I wonder how long Apple will be able to maintain the lead position on mp3 players. How much more innovationcan really be done with such a player, short of making it smaller and/or increasing storage capacity, or adding a bigger video display?

How many different audio devices are there? I wonder if Apple has plans for other types of audio players - a home stereo compent perhaps? I know I wouldn't mind seeing one of those. There's still plenty of room for Apple to innovate.

Also, I think it's hilarious that people are crying foul when Apple is enjoying economies of scale. PC peripheral makers still enjoy better economies of scale on the Windows side, but you don't hear Apple whining - they just keep coming out with better products.

other players in the game have the same problem, what features can be added whiteout bloating the device.

a 2-fold increase? make that a quadruple increase just for a start. 90% of the people i know want a mac if it can run Windows and gets cheaper. If the price go's down, and it will, the Mac is going to be the iPod of the personal computer. I always taught clones would be necessary to keep up with demand but the iPod proves that Apple can handle a tenfold easily.

Concentrating on a few models can make them cheaper than the competition and stay cool at the same time. A killer combination that i'm really looking forward to. :)

I'm already planning to but a new mac mini in January, or as soon as they are released, and look forward to a new powermac model(intel chip) later on in the new year.

2006 should be a crazy year with insanely great products from Apple. I truly believe the Intel switch was a brialliant brilliant move on the part of Apple. Piece of advice, BUY as much Apple stock as you can afford.

Apple probably has about a year or two left on the iPod bubble. Unless the video side really takes off or Apple develops another way to use your iPod, then the old adage "What goes up must come down" should kick in eventually.