Chris Posted January 10, 2006 Report Share Posted January 10, 2006 Apple has announced that all iMac G5 computers shipped from 10 January will be powered by Intel's dual processor. The machines will be the first of the Mac computer family to benefit from the switch to Intel chip technology. Company boss Steve Jobs has also launched a newly branded Mac laptop called the MacBook Pro; it too will come with an Intel processor. The new generation of iMac would be two to three times faster than the current iMac G5, he said. The MacBook Pro would be four to five times as fast as the current PowerBook G4, Mr Jobs told Macworld in San Francisco. The new laptops will not ship until February but the iMacs are available immediately and the price - starting at $1,299 (£735) - will remain the same. It was widely expected that Apple would use the Macworld platform to announce that Intel-based computers would ship. The rest of the Mac family will shift to the Intel dual-core Duo chip during the course of the year. It represents the culmination of a fast-moving collaboration between Apple and Intel, and both Steve Jobs and Intel chief executive Paul Otellini were on stage to pat each other on the back. The shift to Intel was first revealed last year. Previously, Apple machines were powered by IBM's PowerPC chips.More | HereView | apple.com/ukiMac | View ME!MacBook Pro | View ME!And the updated applications...iLife ’06Work ’06What the heck...iTunes 6.0.2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
callousdivine Posted January 11, 2006 Report Share Posted January 11, 2006 I still think it's sad that Mac went with intel, especially when the AMD dual core platform is much more powerful and affordable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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