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01/10/2006, 4:20pm, EST
Tuesday, January 10th
MWSF: Keynote recap, photo gallery
Steve Jobs this morning announced that the company has begun shipping its first Intel-based Macs: the iMac Core Duo is virtually identical to the previously shipping model, but features an Intel Core Duo processor--resulting in a performance increase of 2-3 times. The company also announced the MacBook Pro, which replaces the PowerBook and is expected to ship in February. Jobs also debuted iWeb, a new webpage creation application that is bundled with the updated iLife '06 software suite (available for $79 or free with new Macs) and an updated iWork suite with revised versions of the company's Keynote and Pages applications. Jobs said that Apple's retail segment had its first billion dollar quarter on $5.7 billion in revenuesd during the December/holiday, the highest ever for the company. We have a few photos from the keynote, while the full notes are available online.
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From the blog: "They also have 85 watt AC adapters compared to the old 65 watt AC adapters. Imaginary Watt per Performance Arbitrary Unit my butt."
Of the 2 Intel Macs introduced, the iMac is the one that for me, wasn't *downgraded*...
The Intel PowerBook (who's the idiot that decided to do away with millions of $$$ of marketing and brand awareness and came up with MacBook Pro?) is missing so many things that as a laptop user I *NEED* that it is a significant *DOWNGRADE* from the PowerBook G4...
oooo it's faster.. Great, about damn time, but what about features road warriors *need*?
No Firewire 800... The lack of Firewire 800 is disappointing.. So, I buy the new IntelBook and see *less* performance with my ext. drives? I could go out and buy a Firewire 800 PC Card... Oh..
No Cardbus support... If they had kept the PC Card/Cardbus standard, I could add a Firewire 800 card, but, no. The ExpressCard size they offer support for is the smaller of 2 card sizes... If the larger format card had been supported, we'd have S-ATA and Firewire cards already available.. Searching the ExpressCard site, reveals many interesting ExpressCard/54 cards, but none will work with this new "Pro" Mac laptop... So now what? We buy the latest, greatest Apple "Pro" machine and not use our "Pro" accessories to their specs?
Downgraded Superdrive? The new Powe.. MacBook Pro no longer offers a high speed dual-layer SuperDrive? Again, I thought this was supposed to be an *upgrade*???
No modem? Um, great... I guess Jobs never travels outside a WiFi cloud, but for the majority of road warriors, that just isn't the case! Now when I and my belongings are being strip searched by TSA, I have to worry about the small white piece of plastic (Apple's $49 usb modem) getting lost? Who's the brainiac that came up with this one?
No S-Video out? Great, so now I can't connect the laptop to my clients TVs they have in their conference rooms without *gasp* some kind of 3rd party adaptor I'll need to lug around? Again, isn't this supposed to be Apple's latest and *GREATEST* "PRO" laptop??? And they're *removing* features? This isn't the iBook Steve, it's the *POWERBOOK*! Apple's *PRO* laptop!!!
While this laptop may be faster than stink, in all other ways, it just plain stinks. The lack of attention to the *needs* of the potential users of this product is the kind of thing I'd expect from Micro$oft, or Dell.. Not Apple.