MacBook Pro!
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Well...it's coming.....
Apple unveils new Intel-based Macs
iPod radio remote also unveiled
Tuesday, January 10, 2006; Posted: 8:00 p.m. EST (01:00 GMT)
LOS ANGELES, California (Reuters) -- Apple Computer Inc Tuesday introduced new Intel-powered desktop and notebook computers and said its wildly popular iPods helped drive a 63 percent jump in holiday quarter sales, sending shares up nearly 6 percent.
Chief Executive Steve Jobs said the company sold 14 million iPod music and video players during the holiday quarter and has sold 42 million to date. Speaking at the company's annual Macworld conference in San Francisco, Jobs also said the company's online iTunes store has sold 850 million songs.
The strong demand for iPods helped fuel a 63 percent jump in revenue to a record $5.7 billion during the holiday quarter compared with a year earlier, and near the high end of Wall Street forecasts.
Jobs also told the packed convention center that the company could have sold even more of the portable music players.
"And it still wasn't enough," Jobs said. "More iPods are on the way."
MacBook Pro
Apple also introduced new computers based on Intel Corp. chips, the first to result from its decision to switch from IBM PowerPC chips it had used for years.
Jobs said the company's new line of iMac computers would come in the same shape and sizes as the existing G5 line of iMacs, with starting prices at $1,299.
The new Apple computers are based on Intel Core Duo microchips and are set to begin shipping on Tuesday, with the entire Macintosh line moving to Intel chips this year, the company said. It also introduced a new high-end laptop called the MacBook Pro that will replace its PowerBook series, starting in February at prices beginning at $1,999.
"The new iMac is two to three times faster than the iMac G5," Jobs said in a speech introducing a range of new products that also included a remote control with FM radio capabilities for its iPod music player.
The company also updated its iLife photo and media software as a new version of its suite of digital media editing tools for use in organizing and editing music, photos and movies and Web sites. The $79 price of iLife includes the ability to edit high-definition videos. (Watch the demo of easy, breezy Web pages with music --4:43)
Jobs also unveiled remote control with FM radio capabilities for the iPod.
The iPod Radio Remote enables users to skip tracks and adjust the volume of their iPod even when it's in a pocket or backpack and listen to FM radio stations while displaying station and song information on their iPod screen.
While the iPod faithful focused on new products, investors cheered the company's strong holiday quarter.
Apple sales
Wall Street analysts on average were expecting Apple to post revenue for the fiscal first quarter ending in December of $5.04 billion compared with $3.49 billion a year ago, according to Reuters estimates. Forecasts ranged from $4.69 billion to $5.85 billion.
"Apple blew away revenue and iPod estimates," Soleil-Cross research analyst Shannon Cross said. "And if you extrapolate the numbers, they will likely beat EPS (earnings per share) estimates as well."
The iPod devices have quickly gained the lion's share of the digital music-machine market and helped send Apple stock up 145 percent since the start of 2005.
Jupiter Research digital music analyst Michael Gartenberg said the iPod's strong holiday sales provide more evidence that rivals are having a tough time in their bid to unseat Apple as the dominant player in the digital music business.
"Apple clearly had a runaway fourth quarter --14 million is an incredible number for them to have sold," he said. "It clearly solidifies their position -- not just as the leading player, but the dominant player."
Apple has also bolstered its lead with several versions of the iPod, such as the lower-priced Nano and Shuffle. It introduced a video iPod last October along with a deal with Walt Disney Co. to sell television shows such as "Desperate Housewives."
Analysts have credited the popularity of the devices with reversing Apple's fortunes and have also said Apple's re-emergence in personal computers has hurt sales of Dell Inc. Dell itself has acknowledged that the iPod has revived Apple.
Apple's growth rate in personal computer sales was the highest among the top five vendors in the third quarter, although it still has only about 4 percent of the overall personal computer market.
Apple said it sold 1.25 million Macintosh computers during the holiday quarter, when sales at its retail stores were about $1 billion.
Apple shares were up 5.5 percent at $80.27 in afternoon trading on Nasdaq.
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YouÂ’ve dreamed about it long enough. Now it has a name: MacBook Pro. Powered by a dual-core Intel engine. Up to four times the speed of the PowerBook G4. Eight times the graphics bandwidth. With built-in iSight for instant video conferencing on the move. And Front Row with Apple Remote to dazzle everyone in the room. Wait no more. MacBook Pro starts at just $1999.
New engine, same soul
This is the first Mac notebook built upon the revolutionary new Intel Core Duo — which is actually two processors (up to 1.83GHz) engineered onto a single chip. It provides 2MB of Smart Cache, L2 cache that can be shared between both cores as needed. It delivers higher performance in 2D and 3D graphics, video editing, and music encoding. And the new engine is only part of the story. MacBook Pro has a frontside bus and memory that, at 667MHz, runs faster than any previous Mac notebook. It’s the first Mac notebook with PCI Express, a Serial ATA hard drive and the ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 for superfast graphics performance.
Embedded reporter
Sit down. Click on someoneÂ’s iChat icon. And video conference from anywhere in the world. Though you can barely see it, thereÂ’s an iSight camera built into the thin bezel just above the display. So now you can conference with associates during the day and chat with the kids at night. iChat AV lets you video chat with up to three other people simultaneously. MacBook Pro also comes with AppleÂ’s new Photo Booth application, a fun program that lets you take warped and Warholesque snapshots. With the new iLife Â’06 (included, of course), you can even record movies with iSight right into iMovie, then use the new iLifeÂ’s newest application, iWeb, to create a video blog entry or podcast in just a few clicks (2).
Road show
The first notebook to deliver the Front Row media experience, MacBook Pro makes it easy (and rather spectacular) to showcase your latest creations. Whether youÂ’re at the clientÂ’s office, on location, or back at your hotel room, you just use the Apple Remote to control your videos, music, movies, and more. Front Row lets you quickly navigate through your work and play from anywhere in the room. You can even use the Apple Remote to navigate through Keynote presentations.
Do something. Say something. Make something.
MacBook Pro comes with iLife Â’06, a suite of easy-to-use applications that make it easy for anyone to make postcards, calendars, DVDs, websites and podcasts. Even professionals with proficiencies in high-end applications can appreciate the ease of creating initial compositions. Or posting pictures, videos, and commentary of current events almost before they happened. Enjoy the freedom of the press on MacBook Pro.(2).
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i wan i wan..
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Dun we all want it?Originally posted by Pitot:i wan i wan..
Has the looks, the features, and best of all, the SPEED 
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$3688 is the cheapest model... -
Double the processor, double the price......?Originally posted by Parka: $3688 is the cheapest model... -
I want it all.
BUY BUY BUY. -
Sell ur current one, buy the new one?Originally posted by LazerLordz:I want it all.
BUY BUY BUY.
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There are PLUS and are MINUS as well.
It's DVD writer has downgraded to 4X instead of the ones offered by Powerbooks at 8X. Cannot burn dual layer DVDs but the usual DVD and CD can see and burn with no prob. Choosen bcos of it's slim profile to fit into the 1 inch thick MacBook Pro.
Firewire 400 instead of the now fastest FW800 but I think that's enuff for todays external peripherals.
Screen pixels is a bit lesser than the PBs but veru fractional. Gd thing is tt, it's screen is as bright as Apple's Cinema Display... yummmmm!! -
Oh yeh.. it killed the modem. The MacBook Pro does not comes with modem built-in. U may think.. ba... it's ok... nowadys, it's BB everywhere... but esp so for the well travelled.. there will be places where dialup is still being used. Get a USB Modem if u really need 'em.
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Its around the price of the old PowerBook 15-inch.Originally posted by deathscythe99:Double the processor, double the price......?
I'll recommend that if you wanna buy a Mac, wait for at least the second batch/upgrade to fix any bugs it might have and also wait for more softwares that runs natively on IntelMac. Right now Adobe Photoshop still relies on the Rosetta emulator to run in IntelMac -
Hmmm what I know is that compilers for Intel-based Macs are out alreadyOriginally posted by chanff8:Its around the price of the old PowerBook 15-inch.
I'll recommend that if you wanna buy a Mac, wait for at least the second batch/upgrade to fix any bugs it might have and also wait for more softwares that runs natively on IntelMac. Right now Adobe Photoshop still relies on the Rosetta emulator to run in IntelMac
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Apps that can run on PowerPC chips can run on the MacBook Pro... with the help Rosetta that is. It's not even a emulator. From what I see from the reviews and reports, you hardly find any difference.
The next batch of apps that runs natively will be of cos faster. Vid and graphic intensive apps will get hellava boost by then.
It's a exciting start for Apple and the users alike. -
I can't wait to get myself an iMacOriginally posted by BÃ¥seline:Apps that can run on PowerPC chips can run on the MacBook Pro... with the help Rosetta that is. It's not even a emulator. From what I see from the reviews and reports, you hardly find any difference.
The next batch of apps that runs natively will be of cos faster. Vid and graphic intensive apps will get hellava boost by then.
It's a exciting start for Apple and the users alike.
I'm sure Apple will emerge at the end of this year with the best computers you can ever get. With the guidance of Steve Jobs, oh yea definitely more good news.
By the way, if anyone wanna buy the iPod remote+FM tuner, it can't tune into even frequencies like.2, .4, .6, .8 and .0. The way it works is that every time you increase, the frequency increases by .2, starting from .1
Kinda weird but most likely they'll fix this in the next upgrade. -
Yeap, as from what we read.Originally posted by BÃ¥seline:Apps that can run on PowerPC chips can run on the MacBook Pro... with the help Rosetta that is. It's not even a emulator. From what I see from the reviews and reports, you hardly find any difference.
The next batch of apps that runs natively will be of cos faster. Vid and graphic intensive apps will get hellava boost by then.
It's a exciting start for Apple and the users alike.
In fact, it's kinda interesting 'cos the entire system in now comparable with the dual-chip processors AMD has
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ensuring that older Apple users will still be able to port their programs over .Originally posted by BÃ¥seline:Apps that can run on PowerPC chips can run on the MacBook Pro... with the help Rosetta that is. It's not even a emulator. From what I see from the reviews and reports, you hardly find any difference.
The next batch of apps that runs natively will be of cos faster. Vid and graphic intensive apps will get hellava boost by then.
It's a exciting start for Apple and the users alike. -
It is kinda proportional to the insane amounts of bonuses Jobs getsOriginally posted by chanff8:I can't wait to get myself an iMac
I'm sure Apple will emerge at the end of this year with the best computers you can ever get. With the guidance of Steve Jobs, oh yea definitely more good news.
By the way, if anyone wanna buy the iPod remote+FM tuner, it can't tune into even frequencies like.2, .4, .6, .8 and .0. The way it works is that every time you increase, the frequency increases by .2, starting from .1
Kinda weird but most likely they'll fix this in the next upgrade. -
was at AppleCentre yesterday...
the Apple people there were very forthright and honest.. they said it'll be here in Feb.. however, the MacBooks have Intel chips...
and the dude said "don't buy it"
the usual Apple programs don't work with the Intel architecture so it's basically running an emulator... the MacBook Pro is one giant emulator!
he said that Apple will iron out all the stuff.. then the MacBook will not be an emulator but actually running the programs..
you were told -
n why intel dual core nt amd dual core?
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But speaking of which, it's the program that's why.Originally posted by the Bear:was at AppleCentre yesterday...
the Apple people there were very forthright and honest.. they said it'll be here in Feb.. however, the MacBooks have Intel chips...
and the dude said "don't buy it"
the usual Apple programs don't work with the Intel architecture so it's basically running an emulator... the MacBook Pro is one giant emulator!
he said that Apple will iron out all the stuff.. then the MacBook will not be an emulator but actually running the programs..
you were told
I think they'll have the new version of OSes and software coming up to make use of the Intel architecture!
Still, it's pretty interesting, yea? -
yeah.. i guess my looking at an iMac with the dualcore isn't messed up
it's the same price as the normal iMac..
just wait for OS update..
but i wonder if it'll become MacWinDozeOriginally posted by deathscythe99:But speaking of which, it's the program that's why.
I think they'll have the new version of OSes and software coming up to make use of the Intel architecture!
Still, it's pretty interesting, yea? -
Right now I suppose only iLife and a few other softwares are running on the intel processors natively... The rest all runs on Rosetta.Originally posted by the Bear:was at AppleCentre yesterday...
the Apple people there were very forthright and honest.. they said it'll be here in Feb.. however, the MacBooks have Intel chips...
and the dude said "don't buy it"
the usual Apple programs don't work with the Intel architecture so it's basically running an emulator... the MacBook Pro is one giant emulator!
he said that Apple will iron out all the stuff.. then the MacBook will not be an emulator but actually running the programs..
you were told
Apple chose intel because of their good roadmap. Its better than the other companies. And intel is the first to release 65nm while AMD is coping with heat issues...Originally posted by kaobeikaobu:n why intel dual core nt amd dual core?
Btw, my previous post about the iPod remote, the website I got the info from made a mistake. It can tune into even frequencies, just that you have to change the regional settings first. -
That's right on the heat issues with AMD....it always has been thereOriginally posted by chanff8:Apple chose intel because of their good roadmap. Its better than the other companies. And intel is the first to release 65nm while AMD is coping with heat issues...
Btw, my previous post about the iPod remote, the website I got the info from made a mistake. It can tune into even frequencies, just that you have to change the regional settings first.
I mean, a laptop has to be light, and not heat up fast enough right? Intel had the answer, whilst AMD did not. Thus....
