“The Intel Macs have arrived, and we’ve all begun what is likely to be a year of new product roll-outs the likes of which Mac fans haven’t seen since… well, maybe since ever”. — macworld
Having played with OS X 10.4.3 on an x64 processor - I can only imagine just how fast the intel ‘core duo’ or ‘yonah’* powered mac’s will be. Shame about the name though.. ‘MacBook Pro’ — wtf? I would have gone with ‘iBook’, has a better name to it.
*.. the orginal post wasn’t too clear.. ‘yonah’ is/was the codename of the ‘core duo’ now used by apple..
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Jan 10th, 2006 at 10:16 pm
Don’t you mean x86 processor?
Anyhow. Yes, “MacBook Pro” does take some getting used to. But I think it would be good in the long run, as Steve said, Apple wants the word “Mac” in all their computers.
Jan 11th, 2006 at 1:48 am
The Athlon64 is a 64bit x86 processor :)
Yes, Steve’s in a ‘Mac’ phase right now.. Rather than just focusing on the highly profitable iPod and media hardware range that’s brought on the phat profits, he’s still campaining hard for the mac platform. While Steve’s not everyones favourite, I’m pretty impressed he hasn’t let the PowerPC supply issues that have plauged Apple kill the platform.
Intel’s ‘yonah’ will seriously kick OS X along.. I’m wating for the intel powered version of the mini to be released — then the wallets coming out. :)
Jan 15th, 2006 at 1:26 am
I think the product is far superior to the name too. The i______ naming was really working for Apple. Why switch back to a Mac______ name?
Jan 15th, 2006 at 6:37 am
It seems Job’s want’s to use “Mac” as the branding again. I agree the iName was catchy and works - the iPod is a good case in point - the product is indeed solid, yet while there are a million and one media players, a number of them every bit as good (or better) — ask the average Joe on the street to name three and it’s pretty much a give-in that the (or one of the) first names will be “iPod”.
Having said that, the name is only half the equation for a product - whether or not it cuts-the-mustard is pretty much the other half. Using intel will lead to lower costs and therefore lower prices, not to mention a serious boost in performance - trippling overall performance is no mean feat given a 30% increase in average performance is considered a good effort.. added to that — the new products are either a little more, or equal to an equivelent model.
Some have suggested that moving to Intel is Steve’s worst mistake - but then I love naysayers who decree a product dead before it has even really been launched - they’re often dead wrong. I have a feeling Apple might be on to something good - provided the move to X86 and universal binaries isn’t bungled. :)