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MacWorld Keynote Announces x86 iMac & Laptop

Posted by Zonk on from the watch-him-talk dept.

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.

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  1. Heh by GoodOmens · · Score: 1, Redundant

    So much for the bogus 42" and 50" media center plasmas.

    Those laptops do look sweet though. Screw windows/linux now ... I'm throwing OSX on my intel box!

    ps I know X is based on free bsd ;-)

  2. apple.com by thelost · · Score: 0, Redundant

    http://www.apple.com/ has been updated with new yummies! go look

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  3. The MacBook Pro by cyberfunk2 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Hate the name, hate it hate it hate it. I know the Power implies the use of a PPC chip.. but they had the Power name way back before PPC, so I really see no reason to drop it. "MacBook Pro" sounds like a kiddy toy

    But I've got to say, I love the specs. Finally good mobile graphics. Good CPU power, comparable on price to Dell's, which is really nice (even better deal for students w/ Apple). The iSight/frontrow stuff is just icing on the cake.

    Oh, and that magnetic no-trip power cord... that's just slick apple engineering right there.

  4. The first thing it makes me think of by StarKruzr · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Is "do you want fries with that?"

    I wonder when the McDonald's comparisons are going to start.

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