Apple loves M$ more than Intel

While suffering from heavy colds and a flu in the past 4 days, I took some time listening to some of the newer podcasts I forgot to download last week. One included the MacWorld Expo 2006 coverage of This Week in Tech (TWiT).

If you haven’t seen the entire video (or only relied on Engadget for the blow by blow live blog coverage), go check out Steve Job’s Keynote address here of Macworld San Francisco 2006 where the Intel-powered MacBook Pro was also launched.

I wasn’t able to completely finish watching the keynote on video so I relied on TWiT’s podcast to do me a summary. Interestingly, aside from the expected announcement of the new MacBook Pro, there’s nothing really new there. What Leo Laporte and patrick Norton was singling out was that Intel got just about 30 seconds of air-time while the boring prosentation of Microsoft took more than 10 minutes.

Ohh, that smell’s really aweful. Intel should have taken the center stage (aside from Jobs). Looks like Apple is even happier that MS is still supporting Office for OSX than Intel providing dual core processors to the Mac.

And the drama continues… listen to the TWiT podcast here.

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10 Comments

Koko · 20 years ago

I think, what I liked with the Steve Jobs keynote was the FM tuner/remote. What’s the ipod’s weakness now? Egads!

Fleeb · 20 years ago

Mac OS? Windows? BeOS? They are all just Xerox copies.

lol

jangelo · 20 years ago

Don’t forget the bunny suit.

bimbo · 20 years ago

That’s right. Apple has yet to put together an all around office suite. Appleworks sort of did the trick but was too confusing compared to the user-friendly MS (oxymoron there!) Office. iWork is in its infancy. Pages seems like a great application as soon as it matures, but Keynote knocks the socks off Powerpoint. OpenOffice Org is a good alternative, were using it on our office Macs and it seems to run well and stable, but really slow. Till then MS Office is the app of choice.

Rickey · 20 years ago

As I recall, they also had a Microsoft presentation last year when Jobs announced that Macs were switching to Intel, so this is like a deja vu thing with the Universal Binary jargon.

Intel was important so Apple could produce faster laptops. But Office is essential to the entire Mac product line, Intel processor or not. There are many people who will not buy a Mac if Office was not available. Until there is a viable alternative that newbies won’t be afraid to use, Office is here to stay. (And they will keep reminding us every year…)