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.

Comments

Too expensive...

[rfinnvik]

I'd hoped for a drop in pricing when apple moved to "commodity" processors...

Re:Don't like it

[Anonymous Coward]

you're a dumbass. the new macbooks are using the BRAND NEW intel yonah chips. the prior p4 based intel chips are slow as shit, even with a higher clock rate. again, you're a total dumbass, and i hope your mother knows she's failed.

Re:MacBook Pro

[outZider]

Waah. Who cares? It's a name.

Re:macbook pro page http://www.apple.com/macbookpr

[leandrod]

macbookpro Dropped FW 800 and cardbus.

So they did have to take two very interesting -- can we say essential? -- features to get a decent notebook with Intel processors. Sad. What could have the MacBook been if they had stayed with Power or went AMD? Or if they had went with Alpha in the first place?

I was all for Power, and FireWire, and I don't want to be limited by the lack of CardBus in such an expensive machine. And I try to run all free software. So this launched has killed the Mac for me. Good-bye, Apple. Hello, Pegasos

Re:Photocasting? Ugh

[Overly Critical Guy]

I'm sorry, but "pheed" looks stupid. I like photocasting much better.

Go ahead. Mod me troll.

[Millennium]

I suppose I am being a bit more inflammatory than I might otherwise be. But it's not my intent to troll. I honestly believe what I'm saying here, and I am in fact done with the Mac. The Apple tax used to come with superior technology, which made it worth it. Now it doesn't. So I'm done.

Intel need to acuqire Apple

[taweili]

I think Intel need acquire Apple for the following reasons:

1. Intel is losing against AMD in both performance and OEM, even Dell is considering AMD. Intel will need something to keep OEM with Intel. Being able to offer OEM the Mac OS X would be a possible way to maintain OEM royalty.
2. Microsoft is losing the ground of driving the demand of more computing power. On the lower end, Linux is eating into the Microsoft market. Vista has a tough requirement; however, when Vista is shipped in 2007, that would be a mid-level configuration and Microsoft Office can't eat up any more CPUs. Hey, Mac version runs just fine in Rosetta on Intel Mac. On the other hand, iLife (photo, video and music) are going to drive the demand of raw CPU power; thus keep the demand for CPU to be progress at the speed of Moore's Law.
3. Steve Jobs. In the CES, Intel is clearly targeting at home entertainment as its future market of growth. However, Intel can't rally Hollywood studio behind it's proposal. Intel needs a Hollywood insider and Steve Jobs is a heavy weight Hollywood executive!
4. Intel needs a charismatic leaders. Few in Silicon Valley can fill Andy Grove's shoe. Come on, Paul Otellini? Jobs is up for the, well, job!