First off, thanks to MacRumors.com for providing an excellent live feed of Steve Jobs’ keynote address, which I had running while at work. (Read their feed notes here).
The good news: there are now Macs with Intel processors. (See them here.) I was a bit surprised that there was both notebooks and iMacs included in this annoucement. I had figured Apple would start off small (literally small, with a new Mac Mini).
I am a bit perplexed at the pre-keynote consternation from the various Mac rumor site that stated that Intel-based Macs would not be coming out now, since it was mentioned back in June 2005 that the machines would be shipping “by mid-2006″. Apparently people were focused on the “mid” portion of that statement from Steve Jobs and not the “by” portion. Maybe they forgot about the promises of the 3GHz PowerMacs which never materialized. This is just another excellent example of Apple managing people’s expectations.
Will I buy one? Not yet; I don’t need a new computer right now since mine is only about 16 months old. I know Karen is looking for a new computer, but I don’t know if she’d use a Mac since she calls it a “fake computer”. Eh, what does she know? She’s crazy enough to be marrying me…