Intel makes Apple three times more fast
Stern Jobs wanted to look back on the mostly successful year ever in the history of Apple, that on 1 April 30 year exists. For the first time made Steve Jobs financile results known during a keynote.
Apple has to be then also all reason satisfied: the voorbije quarter was good for a record volume of trade of 5.7 billion dollar. The Apple Retail Stores were in there good for 1 billion dollar.
That results come for a large part for bill of the iPod, of which Apple sold it but gladly 14 million in the voorbije quarter. In total went there in 2005 , 32 million iPods about the counter.
IPod-owners find massive the way Disturb to the iTunes Music, that these days 3 million songs sells per day and with that has a market share of 83 per cent. Also video walks excellently: since the introduction of the 5G video-iPod sold Apple all 8 million video's.
But the keynote went not Macs about iPods only. Jobs revealed the first official Mac with an Intel-chip on board. Apple last year had said that the first Macs actual pace in June 2006 unpleasant Intel would change.
Intel-boss Paul Otellini wanted to tell that Intel for it now already clearly is, on which Jobs announced that Apple also had not sat still.
In contrast till the rumors, the Intel-processor do not makes one's debut in an iBook, but in the iMac. The all-in-on desktop keeps the same dimensions, the same design and the same equipment - on the Intel Core Duo chip. Jobs got SPEC-benchmarks with it at to show that the processor two until three times faster is then the PowerPC G5. The prices remains unaltered: 1379 Euros for the 17-inch, 1789 Euros for the 20-inch.
In February then the MacBook follows Per, the successor of the PowerBook. This becomes a notebook with Intel Core Duo on 1.67 GHz or 1.83 GHz and a 15-inch broad image LCD-screen (respectively 2139 and 2689 Euros). According to Jobs will these 4 until 5 time more fast are in SPEC-benchmarks.
The MacBook Per a built in iSight-webcam, an infrared-receiver for the Apple Braked and a new child of powerkabelconnector, MagSafe contain. These sit not mechanically in the notebook fast but magnetic, so that he releases as soon as there at the cable pulled becomes.
The through Jobs in the prospect stolen speeds profit counts only for programs that native on the Intel-processor exported can become. Existing PowerPC-applications can be exported by the built in Rosetta-emulator, but that goes considerably more slowly.