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Greedo said 2:30PM on 1-11-2006
Big, fat, arm-stretched yaaaaawwn!!
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Eoghan said 2:37PM on 1-11-2006
I was very disappointed by two things, the lack of a Intel based Mac mini with Front Row or any other appropriate platform for a Media Center and no option of booting into Windows on the MacBookPro. Many of us require Windows laptops for work and unless it is able to boot into windows corporate just wont let us buy them, sure I would typically boot into OS X but it would be really nice to have the option of going over to the dark side now and again and it would be a nice switcher platform.
ilife 06 is cool, love the photo casting, and adding the pod casting to GarageBand is a smart move. I hope to pick up a family pack in the next few days and I will finally get a iMac account too.
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suldes said 2:39PM on 1-11-2006
A big yawn until he got to the hardware. The iLife demos were time wasters. The iMac with Intel chip and no price increase was terrific, even though I have the 17" that I bought in November (which is awesome anyway). The Intel commercial was hysterical. The Mac laptop is the winner here, but so much more to come during the year. Just a 3-mouse out of 5 rating.
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Benson Leung said 2:41PM on 1-11-2006
I feel that this has been the most significant Macworld Keynote in many many years.
The new Intel based Macs are here, and I am excited. They didn't correspond to an entirely new design, with both the iMac and the MacBook Pro relying closely on tried and true designs from the last generation of PowerPC macs, but that was intentional. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Apple's message here is that the new Intel chips do not change the very essence of the Mac. Having the machines look and feel the same as before, giving the same fantastic user experience only much faster reinforces that.
It helps reinforce that Apple is very much on track or ahead of schedule with this transition, and that to the end user, the switch to Intel will barely be noticed. This is a stark difference from the painful transitions from OS9 to OS X, for example, where all of your old Classic apps would look and feel ugly and out of place, and the OS was still in it's adolescent stages. This is different. Mac OS X is very mature, very stable, even on the new architecture, and Apple has done all the hard work to make sure that the transition is transparent to the end user.
To top it off, the news that Apple is accelerating the upgrade schedule, planning on refreshing their entire product line by the end of this year is exciting.
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Dan said 2:41PM on 1-11-2006
Bust, nothing really new, Intel was so last year. And why the heck did they release new G5 iMacs and new Powerbooks in October when, technically they are obsolete in a few months.
No new products, just redesigns and iLife 06 is worth it if you don't have a .Mac account
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u07ch said 2:43PM on 1-11-2006
I love my macs, but intel, IBM and microsoft and pretty much everyone tells you about products in advance so you can plan. Lenovo / IBM notebooks are the best in the business; i know what products they have and where they will go. They have lots of products to fit into the niches of my corporate life.
The macbook is very nice; as soon as i hear it can run windows i am getting one at work to see if its a better alternative to my thinkpad. Its not too expensive; look at the price of a t series ibm and tell me the mac is overpriced. The imac is way too expensive and is derirative.
What irks me is that I couldnt plan to buy macbooks for work this year as pc's because we didnt know what or where is coming; we were told it was going to be June for a start. If apple want to be taken seriously by corporatations around the world they need to stop keynotes and start saying this is our roadmap.
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Benson Leung said 2:44PM on 1-11-2006
I think the iLife portion of the keynote was a little bit drawn out. iPhoto... we've seen seemingly the same demo repeated year after year... and the new iWeb demo just seems like a .mac homepage demo rehashed again. It really didn't need to go on as long as it did, although I think the product is going to be significant.
The Garageband demo with Podcasting was amusing though. Super Secret Apple Rumors. Heh. Definitely worth watching that. I also think that the podcasting support in Garageband will make garageband into a must have for podcasters on the mac. Way to go.
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Alex M said 2:45PM on 1-11-2006
If I was older and I had some money to blow on a MacBook it would've been great. But there wasn't much from the software side: I was getting myself ready to buy 10.5 (which I could just afford) but that doesn't happen. And I don't want .Mac, which means there's no point in me getting iLife 06.
Though I can see why everyone else is quite excited.
Oh well, there's always WWDC.
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Bill said 2:47PM on 1-11-2006
The keynote may not have been the best "Stevenote" ever, but it was a good one. The "problem" with this keynote, I think, is simply the amount of rumors surrounding what Steve was going to announce. We heard rumors about updates to every product in the Apple computer line (except iMac and PowerMac). The rumors surrounding the Mac mini were especially tantalizing and got lots of people's hopes up.
If we hadn't been so dead set (I was, at least) on running to the Apple Store right after the keynote and picking up would it have been such a dissappointment?
All-in-all I think it was a decent keynote. Not the best, but certainly not the worst. I'm excited for where Apple is going with all this; although, I would've liked to hear something about Leopard =.
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Benson Leung said 2:48PM on 1-11-2006
u07ch, the IBM/Lenovo Thinkpad T60 and X60 laptops were released last week. They are also Intel Core Duo based laptops. You're telling me you knew about those laptops months in advance? If you said yes, i'd call you a liar. They were announced at CES, and no one knew that Lenovo had those laptops in the pipe and that's no different from what Apple did.
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Kim Kwan said 2:49PM on 1-11-2006
Mixed.
+ iWeb (I've been using RapidWeaver)
+ MacBook Pro (I want it! NOW! NOT FEBRUARY!)
? Photocasting (Not sure how useful that is yet. For me anyway.)
? Vodcasting (Probably ever gonna do that anyway.)
? Podcast Studio (Hmmm... More podcasts?)
? Intel iMac (Doesn't seem as big a deal as MBP.)
- Lack of iWork demo or significant improvement(s) (I can do with 2D charts.)
- Grand Apple 30th anniversary celebrations (I was thinking they might put out a limited edition Mac. Or iPod at least.)
I've got more question marks for MW2006 than 2005. That's for sure.
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imarkG5 said 2:52PM on 1-11-2006
well for me nothing can top 2002's iMac G4 announcement & the day i became a Mac geek.
still this like every year I always like the Keynotes. I love Steve showing me the cool new stuff in iLife than reading little blurbs about what it can do. I cant wait to get me new iLife & .Mac to go with it & upgrade iWork all in one trip.
The Intel Mac specs are amazing. While I upgraded to a G5 iMac this last summer & plan to keep it around for awhile. The whole "entire line transition by years end" has me worried about the longevity of my PPC based iMac.
Like most others I was wishing for a Intel Mac Mini with Front Row & maybe some other media center like stuff slapped into it. I will either go for the first Intel Mini or wait for a 2nd gen Intel Macs to show up before any hardware upgrading for me happens.
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Dirk S said 2:53PM on 1-11-2006
I just posted on my blog www.brandscribe.com a story that I don't understand the new Intel, I mean Apple TV commercial. It seems to talk more about the competition and Intel than Apple. Intel gets more mentions and views than Apple. I just don't get it. It is funny but it misses the mark. Be positive about yourself, not negative about the competition. This is not a Presidential election.
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Matthew said 2:54PM on 1-11-2006
Well I enjoyed it, but at the same time was pretty let down. Rumors shot us to the moon and Steve basically gave us a decent size tract of land instead. Personally I really REALLY wanted an intel based Mac Mini and ibook. I especially wanted the Mac Mini with Front Row 2.0 with DVR capability. None of that happened, so I was dissappointed. I probably shouldn't have expected so much I guess.
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Stacey said 3:01PM on 1-11-2006
I thought it was great!
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jonas said 3:04PM on 1-11-2006
i wouldnt know, since the 4 PCs i've tried watching the keynote through wont let me. theyre fast and so is my connection. but alas, picture and sounds freezes almost instantly.
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J.Stone said 3:05PM on 1-11-2006
What was really disappointing was the quality of the QT feed. Did anyone view it without stutters and stops? I tried several times but didn't have the patience to deal with the terrible feed. I'm on a high speed connection and everything else works great. What gives Stevo?
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tdungan said 3:16PM on 1-11-2006
I loved Paul in the bunny suit. And I'm really looking forward to iLife and the new 'book. But I'm a little dissapointed in the speeds announced... Asus and Dell just announced systems at CES (laptops and desktops) with better speeds.
Not that I'm complaining about getting a system 4-5x faster than my existing one, but it would have been nice to be the "baddest a$$" system on the block the day it actually hit the street.
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Peter said 3:21PM on 1-11-2006
Learning that Entourage will be compatible with Spotlight in March is only one of the many things that made it great!
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C. Larana said 3:21PM on 1-11-2006
No one seems to be as excited as me about all of it..the stevenote was great... what else is gonna be as exciting as a core duo based lap top...I guess he could have presented it as a musical......i want my mac bookpro right now......and that chick in the commercial was hot.
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