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Till recently, the last thing you’d expect to see on an Apple computer would be an ‘Intel Inside’ logo. Tuesday, Intel put paid to that... With its decision to use Intel microprocessors, Apple is poised for the first time in decades to boost its share in the desktop PC market. The ‘Mac makers’ are not only tapping the latest chip technologies that rival makers of Windows-based computers will use, but also the vast marketing power that Intel, the world’s largest semiconductor company, delivers.
Apple unveiled its first two machines with Intel’s Core Duo – an iMac and a new laptop, the Macbook Pro – on Tuesday and said it would not thwart users who would seek to run Microsoft’s Windows operating system on the machines.
Though Windows sales could benefit, Microsoft risks losing ground unless its operating systems keep up with the Mac OS X. Windows Vista, the next major update, won’t be available until later this year – and it’s promised features copy many of those already in Mac OS X.
The change does not appear to have alienated Microsoft, however, which offers a Mac version of its popular Office productivity suite.
“We’re formalising our commitment to this platform,” said Roz Ho, General Manager of the Microsoft’s Macintosh Business Unit. “We’ll continue shipping Office (for the) Mac for a minimum of five years.”
Interestingly enough, Microsoft is the biggest outside provider of software to Apple.
Effective immediately however, all iMac computers, and the soon to be released Apple laptop will use the newly released Intel Core Duo processor that features two computing engines on a single piece of silicon.
“This ushers in a new generation of iMacs,” Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple, told the audience. “We started a partnership less than a year ago to make this happen – it’s been incredible how our engineers have bonded and how well this has gone,” he said.
Jobs was joined on stage by Intel Chief Executive Paul Otellini, who appeared amid a cloud of smoke wearing a white hazmat suit and symbolically delivered the chip to Jobs.
“The iMac has already been praised as ‘the gold standard of desktop PCs,’ so we hope customers really love the new iMac, which is up to twice as fast,” said Jobs. “With Mac OS X and Intel’s latest dual-core processor under the hood, the new iMac delivers performance that will knock our customers’ socks off.”
The move to Intel chips will erase the perception that the Mac lag behind Windows-based PCs in performance, analysts said. “Now consumers can buy a Mac that is three times faster and for the same price,” said Nathan Brookwood, an analyst with Insight 64 research firm.
Apple’s historic shift to Intel microprocessors came months earlier than expected. When it first announced plans to switch in June, Apple had said it expected to begin making the transition by mid-2006.
Tuesday, at the unveiling, Jobs said its entire Mac line will be converted to Intel by the end of 2006!
He also demonstrated new software, called Rosetta, that will let owners of the new Intel-based Macs run older applications.
The new iMacs will have the same all-in-one design and screen sizes as the previous models and will also include Apple’s Front Row software and a remote control, which lets users watch videos, listen to music or browse photos from across a room.
The machines will come complete with Apple’s newly announced iLife ’06 suite of digital lifestyle programs. In one of the updates, the latest version of iPhoto will let Mac users share pictures much like bloggers, and podcasters share content.
“Everybody expected to see the Intel notebook computer at Mac World,” said Ted Schadler, a technology analyst with Forrester Research. “But people did not expect to see the new iMac.”
Source:
Mumbai Mirror
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Posted: 2006-01-12 15:26:33
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Old news mate register reported this months back
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Posted: 2006-01-12 15:48:22
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Old news yes...but the first products were unveiled on 10th jan....
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Posted: 2006-01-12 15:51:51
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yep, already seen them unforchantly, been online for a while
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Posted: 2006-01-12 19:12:51
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.. and also posted in jools new apple product thread too ..
Hope the laptop doesn't slow down as the CPU gets hot..
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Posted: 2006-01-12 21:19:52
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