MacWorld Keynote Announces x86 iMac & Laptop 1607
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.
What he DIDN'T say (Score:2, Funny)
Ouch!
European Price? (Score:3, Funny)
Man, dunno how i'm gonna feel on my lowly powerbook though
Geek Ready? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Stupid name (Score:5, Funny)
Apple is using Intel (Score:3, Funny)
Indeed (Score:1, Funny)
Chip Speed (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Stupid name (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Also. (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Stupid name (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Intel! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Stupid name (Score:5, Funny)
I smell a new Apple slogan!
Named for advertising (Score:4, Funny)
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.
Re:European Price? (Score:5, Funny)
Slashdot readers don't have to worry about that.
Re:You retard (Score:2, Funny)
MacBookPro anagram (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Too expensive... (Score:2, Funny)
MacBook ===== Acer Travelmate 8200 (Score:4, Funny)
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.
Re:European Price? (Score:4, Funny)
Simple, the part of the Slashdot readers who aren't total geek stereotypes don't mind this situation. And for the rest, the situation would never occur in the first place.
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Re:Intel! (Score:2, Funny)
Microsoft to discontinue Windows on x86 in favor of PowerPC by the end of the 2006!
Re:Stupid name (Score:1, Funny)
FM Tuner (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Indeed (Score:5, Funny)
Just how long will it be before someone 'hacks' a way in to view through it at any time?
These days, a lot of people leave their machines on 24/6...I pretty much do all of mine. You've just put up a ready built survellience (sp?) system on yourself, and you might not even know it. Bad for personal usage, but, what if this was in a company somwhere...makes it easy to spy on you.
Will there be a neat little iPatch that you can slip over the camera to prevent is seeing anything?
Re:little late? (Score:0, Funny)
Go recompile your kernel, you douche. I'm going to go outside where the three-dimensional people are and talk to some chicks.
Re:Indeed (Score:5, Funny)
With the switch to Intel, I can see why you're a little confused... these will be running Mac OS X, not Windows.
Re:FIrewire 800 (Score:3, Funny)
but surely the MacBook should have one?
Do not surrender into the temptation. There is no MacBook. There is only Powerbook.
especially when you have kids (Score:5, Funny)
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
Re:The MacBook Pro (Score:3, Funny)
'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?
Re:Stupid name (Score:5, Funny)
Re:My iMac G5 was IIvx-ed! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Indeed (Score:5, Funny)
And on the seventh day Jobs rested and saw what he had made, and saw that it was good.
PowerBook ... MacBook ? PowerMac ... MacMac ? (Score:5, Funny)
Sheesh ...
Re:macbook pro page http://www.apple.com/macbookpr (Score:3, Funny)
Re:especially when you have kids (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Windows? (Score:4, Funny)
Running MS Windows on a MacBook Pro is like letting a retarded kid drive a Ferrari.
Re:The MacBook Pro (Score:3, Funny)
Reason 6: the ability to be snooty about which brand of computer you are using.
Yeah, but does it run... (Score:2, Funny)
(oh well, here goes my karma
Re:Stupid name (Score:5, Funny)
Learn to overlock, n00b.
Re:macbook pro page http://www.apple.com/macbookpr (Score:3, Funny)
Also, they include this great technology in the MacBook... Gigabit Ethernet. I hear it kicks ass at file transfers.
Re:Stupid name (Score:5, Funny)
"Out out, damned spot!"
Re:Stupid name (Score:3, Funny)
>
> Yeah, they've only had those on deep fryers for around 10 years now. I was wondering
> when the computer industry would catch on!
>
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?
Re:MacBook Pro (Score:2, Funny)
obligatory (Score:5, Funny)
(first read somewhere here on Slashdot, I'm sure)
It also doesn't come with (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Low Resolution (Score:5, Funny)
I think you're already there.
yup. Take a look at those ferraris ;) (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Stupid name (Score:3, Funny)
But it is capable of running an operating system that doesn't smell like something that rhymes with "fit."
blakespot
Macbook (Score:3, Funny)
Re:little late? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:MacBookPro anagram (Score:4, Funny)
MacBook Pro (or kaboom!, PC)
Re:Windows? (Score:3, Funny)
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)
Re:macbook pro page http://www.apple.com/macbookpr (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Heh (Score:3, Funny)
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.
Re:Indeed (Score:2, Funny)
"These days, a lot of people leave their machines on 24/6" And on the seventh day Jobs rested and saw what he had made, and saw that it was good.
No, he sat down to watch the ladies, on his newly developed network of xxx spy cams xxx.