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MacWorld Keynote Announces x86 iMac & Laptop
Steve Jobs began giving his keynote at 9am local time, PST. The action was posted live at MacRumorsLive, and Engadget. From the Engadget liveblog: "How many [iPods] did we sell last quarter? Some of the estimates were getting astronomical - 8 million, 9 million. I'm really pleased to announce that last quarter we sold 14 million iPods .. that is over a hundred every minute, 24/7 throughout the quarter. And it still wasnt enough. We've now sold over 42 million iPods -- as you can see the curve is going up again" MacWorld and Ars Technica has coverage as well. The shiniest news: MacBook Pro. iSight, Front Row; $1999 1.67 Core Duo; 667 DDR bus, Radeon x1600; $2499 1.83GHz. Intel chip.
Ouch!
Anyone know what the projected Euro price is going to be? My girlfriend has been waiting for this release before she buys herself a laptop (she's a pro photographer) and its definitely going to be top of the list ..
.. how do you other geeks deal with girlfriends whose laptops are better than yours? aarrgghh ... :)
Man, dunno how i'm gonna feel on my lowly powerbook though
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So, this new Apple news is freakin' awesome! I want one of these right now! Now I just have to wait and see if Apple/Mac will finally be validated by the geek community before I can get one. Its long had the approval of the artsy-fartsy and recently, the trendy, but could this be the news that finally gives it approval with my oh so important "Linux or nothing else" loyalist friends? I mean it's a UNIX based OS, dual core chip in a laptop!! Look at the facts people, this is as geeky as it gets.
I think the name is a little weird. Wasn't MacBook the guy that guy in that one play that British dude wrote? "Lay On, MacBook."
Get over it. Or are you still using a Motorola 68k-based Mac?
"I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismometer." -Ken Kesey
Apple is distinctly moving away here from the hallmark of maturity and erudition that "iMac" and "iBook" represented
Why are they using 2GHz intel chips on the high end iMacs when 3Ghz ones are available on the PC?
If you say "MacBook," you have to go outside and spit, then do three spins.
Currently hooked on AMP
Surely, you jest! How can we call it a PC, when it lacks viruses and spyware?
Don't say that word! Say 'the Scottish Computer' instead.
What part of "x86 iMac & Laptop" escaped you?
Why yes, I AM a rocket scientist!
"Be bloody, bold, and resolute! Laugh to scorn the power of man, for none of woman born shall harm MacBook."
I smell a new Apple slogan!
Now that Apple is joining the upper eschelon of consumer products, it has to think broader than it's own niche market.
For instance, the MacBook was named such because of the possible tie ins with other proven products.
Apple will soon be announcing the Big MacBook Pro. It will feature a larger screen, two all-beef patties, a sesame seed bun, and be cross advertised with McDonalds.
NMG
What do you mean by "obsolete"? I have a 2+ yo 3G ipod and it works just dandy. Just because I can't squint real hard and watch the newest U2 video deosn't make it "obsolete".
MACBOOKPRO! ~ PC OR KABOOM!
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That was a pretty silly thing to hope for. Steve didn't give me a pony, either.
Why yes, I AM a rocket scientist!
The Acer Travelmate has the same components, faster processor, more ram, more storage space, but a cheaper price.
Apple's doom is sealed if they are going to start charging more for the same thing you can get in the PC WORLD!
Only difference, Apple is running OSX, so Apple should charge less then the Acer Travelmate, Acer has to pay Microsoft for Windows, Apple doesn't have to pay anybody for OSX.
Apple doesn't get it. They have become PC OEM retailers and with the exception of the OS, every component is made by PC OEM manufacturers, but Apple thinks they can charge more for it. Brand recognition might drive big sales in the first few months, but eventually people are going to realize you can get the same performance in a PC product for cheaper without paying more for the branding, as has been the case for the last few years.
Apple DIDN'T EVEN REDESIGN THE CASE!
MacBook Pro = the biggest joke yet. Apple claims it is more then a PC, it IS a PC, just costs more.
We can finally compare Apple's to Apple's now, I can't wait for the benchmarks that prove Apple isn't anything more then a PC with a different logo. Considering OSX has had lousy comparisons to similar Linux and Windows concepts (like threading performance, etc) which have been provem kernel related, I am sure that we will find that performance on the Mactels are probably not as good as with the same system running Linux or Windows.
Good luck Apple! After a year of hype you have come out with a product that has already been on the market for months.
I haven't thought of anything clever to put here, but then again most of you haven't either.
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Microsoft to discontinue Windows on x86 in favor of PowerPC by the end of the 2006!
The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.
Or, perhaps the MacMac Pro.
An FM tuner is announced and there's No bitching about OGG? I am so disappointed in all of you.
STFU, fatty. You're just mad because someone made a geeky product that pretty girls can use without having to have an engineering degree first. OMFG ITS NOT TEH OPEN SOUREZ!!! TEH GATESBORG IS DRM-ING THE FREEDOMS OF AMERIKKA!!!!!
Go recompile your kernel, you douche. I'm going to go outside where the three-dimensional people are and talk to some chicks.
but surely the MacBook should have one?
Do not surrender into the temptation. There is no MacBook. There is only Powerbook.
Sony VAIO N505VE: power connection killed by my son when he started learning to crawl and pull himself up things
/. I'm guessing it's the kids thing.)
Thinkpad A32: power connection killed by my son about 6 months later
Dell 5160: power connection killed by my daughter as she's learning to crawl and pull herself up things.
Thinkpad R52: power connection seems OK so far. Crossing my fingers.
(Those of you who are thinking, "Well, duh, just keep your laptop away from your kids" either don't have kids or don't have a serious computer addiction. And since you're on
But you'd be buying a Gateway....
'Nuff Said, or am I missing something here?
And I'm not a Mac zealot, as I'm typing this on my Dell Latitude D810 from my Austin office (hmm.....), but seriously, who buys Gateways anymore?
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You'd better be prepared for the Mac fanboy onslaught of "If it's not Scottish, it's CRAP!"
In Soviet Russia, Chuck Norris will still kick your ass.
if only someone would come out with a computer that still did useful work after it was obsolete!
Sheesh ...
Ok, when you said you used it for video work on your laptop I was all like, "wow, it's actually plausible that this guy has a raid array or something hooked up and actually needs the bandwidth." Then you had to go and say, "which was a great way to get projects from my G5 onto my powerbook quickly." There is no way your puny laptop drive is actually taking in input faster than fw400 can spit it out.
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WHO ATE MY BREAKFAST PANTS?
Running MS Windows on a MacBook Pro is like letting a retarded kid drive a Ferrari.
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Please don't forget:
Reason 6: the ability to be snooty about which brand of computer you are using.
I submitted this story last night, and it didn't get posted.
... Windows?
:)
(oh well, here goes my karma
Rediculous is ridiculous!
a computer doesn't spill flaming death on everyone nearby if it gets knocked over
Learn to overlock, n00b.
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Then you had to go and say, "which was a great way to get projects from my G5 onto my powerbook quickly." There is no way your puny laptop drive is actually taking in input faster than fw400 can spit it out.
Also, they include this great technology in the MacBook... Gigabit Ethernet. I hear it kicks ass at file transfers.
They were going to announce one designed especially for women, called the Lady MacBook, but there were some stains they couldn't remove from the material they had chosen for the case...
"Out out, damned spot!"
Ooh, a sarcasm detector. Oh, that's a real useful invention.
skyshock21 wrote of the new magnetized power cables on the MacBookPros:
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> Yeah, they've only had those on deep fryers for around 10 years now. I was wondering
> when the computer industry would catch on!
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Sorry, but most of the time IT->fast food is a one-way transition. Not a lot of informaiton leaks back over the wall, you know?
MacBook Pro + Sharpie marker = "Powerbook"
"Now we'll finally be able to combine the security and ease of use of Windows with the flexibility and low cost of Apple hardware!"
(first read somewhere here on Slashdot, I'm sure)
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OS X.
I think you're already there.
Anyone who whines about being modded down should be.
Yet they are usually the ones that drives the ferrari.
But it is capable of running an operating system that doesn't smell like something that rhymes with "fit."
blakespot
-- Heisenberg may have slept here.
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Well WinBook and MacDaddy were already taken
* Winners compare their achievements to their goals, losers compare theirs to that of others.
It does sort of sound like something you'd be asked if you want fries with...
The retarded kid can take the wheel when he wants to play F.E.A.R. but he has to promise to sit quietly in the passenger seat* the rest of the time, and not fuck with the stereo.
(* passenger seat = 2nd harddrive partition)
If Jesus wants me it knows where to find me.
The last time I was in a war zone, I was forced to split a man open with my canteen because I couldn't get the full 800Mbps transfer rate to my external hard drive. Nevermind the fact I couldn't find a power supply for that thing anywhere in the desert... that mofo had to die!
"Quoting famous computer scientists out of context is the root of all evil (or at least most of it) in programming." - K
When I say "nobody" I'm talking in the context of rumors sites.
There's a big difference between the guess-work and speculation of a handful of slashbots (some of whom are bound to be right, in the way a broken clock is right twice a day), and somebody like Think Secret telling us that "inside sources" are informing them of a new iBook and an Intel mini.
Information wants to be anthropomorphized.