&#147;Hands on: The new Mac Pro is &#145;one screamer&#146;&#148;
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Reviewing the Mac Pro, Yuval Kossovsky writes for Computerworld, &#147;I&#146;ve spent some time thinking about the &#145;Pro&#146; in Mac Pro. Maybe it stands for professional, maybe it stands for production. Or maybe it is an acronym for Please, Really, Oh My!, as in: &#145;Would you like to try this computer?&#146;...Please. &#145;It is $1,000 cheaper than a comparable Dell.&#146; ...Really? &#145;Try your favorite Mac OS X Intel-compiled application.&#146; Oh My....that&#146;s fast! In other words, if you do media production, scientific computing or another other processor-intensive work, believe me &#151; you want one of these!&#148;
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The Mac maker splits its stock 2-for-1 for the first time since the dot-com days. Big whoop.
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Fast Forward columnist Rob Pegoraro will be online to talk about the new products Apple Computer unveiled last week at Macworld.
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In their weekly technology column for ABC News, Jonathan Blum and Dan Evans indicate that âthe latest version of Appleâs iMac desktop definitely deserves to be one of our picks of the week. It is impressive from both a technical and design standpoint.â iMac, they say offers âa tasteful combo of black and gray aluminum that will make even the dullest cubicle or home office look cool.â Whatâs more, they believe that any consumer âlooking to get going in the home media network thingâthat is, storing and routing music and movies to TV screens around the home using a digital networkâshould consider the new iMac.â
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Apple  said it will begin  shipping on Tuesday its new Mac Pro workstation and its Xserve  server, which the company said is up to twice as fast as its  predecessor.
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After putting Leopard through its paces, Dean Takahashi (San Jose Mercury News) finds it is aptly namedââItâs fast and sleekââand concludes that the latest version of Mac OS X âgives Apple [an] advantage over Microsoft.â It offers âmore than 300 new features, making it the biggest upgrade in a long time,â and âa lot of the features allow you to do things more quickly and more easily.â That includes iChat, which, he says, âgot a good makeover. Besides doing video chats with the built-in Webcams on Macs, you can now use them to share any kind of file with the person youâre chatting with. You can also take over that friendâs desktop in case youâre diagnosing the machine from afar.â
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Reviewing the MacBook Pro for Computerworld, Ken Mingis writes, âTo paraphrase Victor Kiam, the late Gillette CEO, I liked the latest 17-in. MacBook Pro so much that I bought my own.â
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(InfoWorld) - Apple will show off new MacBook Pro notebooks along with a full demonstration of the next operating system, Mac OS X 10.5 (a.k.a. Leopard), at next month's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), a Wall Street analyst predicted Wednesday. PiperJaffray analyst Gene Munster rejected rumors that Apple will tout its iPhone at the conference, which opens June 14 in San Francisco. Instead, Apple will launch the new cellular phone in late June. At WWDC, Munster wrote in a note to investors, CEO Steve Jobs and crew will flesh out the remaining undisclosed features of Leopard, announce updated or new MacBook Pro models, and perhaps unveil a revamped iMac desktop lineup. "We believe the Street would react positively to such product announcements," he said. Munster's forecast didn't exactly come from left field. Apple has already promised that Leopard, once scheduled for a spring release but now shooting forÂ October,Â would be feature-complete by WWDC. Developers, in fact, are to receiveÂ beta copiesÂ of the new operating system at the conference. Nor is the MacBook call a long shot. Just last week the Cupertino, Calif. computer makerÂ tweakedÂ the MacBooks by boosting hard disk capacity and bumping up processor speeds, clearing the way for an upgrade to the pricier Pro models. Analysts, pundits, and bloggers have for weeks been hyping the idea ofÂ LED-backlitÂ MacBook Pros using the new Intel Santa Rosa chip set. Although neither Apple or AT&TÂ have spilled an iPhone launch date, Munster figures it will come after WWDC. That means there's little chance sales will boost Apple's bottom line for the quarter ending June 30. However, during the next three months, Munster predicted Apple would sell approximately one million iPhones at an average price of $550 each. But because Apple plans to account for iPhone revenues over the life of each phone's contract, the company will see only $27.5 million in recognized revenues for the quarter. Munster also pegged the September quarter as the time frame for a widescreen iPod -- essentially a stripped iPhone. "Expect Apple to launch new widescreen iPods with the iPhone's multi-touch technology at a price-point below the iPhone's $499," said Munster. "Like $399." PiperJaffray maintained its Outperform rating for Apple shares, with a price target of $140. On Wednesday, Apple closed $112.89, down 65 cents or 0.57 percent, for the day.
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Robert Weston reports for AP, &#147;The recently released Mac Pro maintains the Apple shine in design, usability and software but also does something unexpected: It turns the old Mac versus Windows PC price equation on its head.&#148;
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Though it's been criticized for being more spit and polish than a bona fide upgrade, the new Mac OS X, due for release Friday, has an impressive set of enhancements that turn ordinary computer jocks into power users.
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âSure itâs got a faster processor, but itâs the display that will blow you away,â writes Ken Mingis . â Iâm talking in this case about the latest MacBook Pro to grace my desk, the top-of-the-line 17-in. model with a glossy 1,920-by-1,200-pixel high-resolution screen.â That screen, he extols, âis without a doubt the best-looking LCD screen Apple has produced in what also happens to be the fastest laptop from the company yet. In a word: suh-weet.â
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If you haven&#39;t already, check out Tom Yager&#39;s IBM&#39;s Power5 worth a second look, first posted on MacCentral on December 22nd.
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&#147;The new Mac Pro desktop is a thing of beauty,&#148; writes Gary Krakow for MSNBC. &#147;Inside and out this box looks like it is the ultimate desktop computer on the market today. With two, 64-bit, dual-core Intel Xeon &#145;Woodcrest&#146; processors and its sleek design, the Mac Pro is the computer equivalent of a Ferrari, Maserati or Porsche&#148;
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Writing for Computerworld.com, Ken Mingis describes the reaction the 24-inch iMac received at the office: &#147;Two or three other online editors popped up to oooh and aaah, and one of Computerworld&#146;s graphics gurus &#151; who has a year-old G5-based iMac &#151; admitted flat out that he was &#145;drooling.&#146;&#148;
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What to make of the Macworld keynote, where the line is between geeky interest and geeky obsession.... What are the things that tie us all together as geeks? Plus, a song! Enjoy!
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Register now for Apple Certified Pro training at DV Expo West. Apple representatives are conducting classes on Apple&#146;s high-end video and music applications, including Final Cut Pro HD, DVD Studio Pro, Motion and Logic, Dec 5-10.  [Nov 23]
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Jesse Noyes writes for the Boston Herald, &#147;&#145;Big.&#146; That&#146;s the first word that pops into mind when you sit yourself down in front of the new iMac&#146;s 24-inch display.&#148;