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Apple announced their first Intel Macs: the iMac and the MacBook Pro.

Steve Jobs said the Intel iMac is twice as fast as the G5 iMac, and the MacBook Pro is four and a half to five times as fast as the G4 PowerBook. So it looks like the push is on to get all you iPod lovers to buy a Mac too. It will be interesting to see what becomes of the Mac Mini and the PowerMacs.

The iLife suite got updated too. Apparently GarageBand has been revamped to make it easier to produce podcasts. I'll probably get it for the library, and update what we've already got.

There's something about the Steve Jobs Keynote address that creeps me out. It's like watching Bush give a press conference, trying to extract the truth from all the bullshit. When Jobs and Schiller are talking together, the creep factor increases exponentially. Still, I want a MacBook Pro.

BTW, I was on the Apple website trying to check out the specs on my old Blueberry G3 iMac at home. The black background of the webpage with the three shades of grey text...WTF? It looked terrible. It looked better on my Luxo iMac, but still, WTF? Black pages look like shit; it doesn't matter who's doing it. If Apple can't do it right, with all their attention to detail, nobody can. QED.

What the hell was that thing on the iPod? A radio remote. Not interested. I hardly ever listen to radio anymore.

I wish Apple had released a media center gizmo. Supposedly it's in the works.

Posted: Wed - January 11, 2006 at 09:14 AM      

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