MacBook

Time to get geeky.

Apple just released the MacBook Pro which contains the new Intel Dual Core processors. That means it's really fast. But most importantly, it means that everyone who has a PowerBook has an obsolete computer. So ha-ha-ha-ha. Now you might say someone with a iBook G3 is one to talk, but you know what, my shit was obsolete when I bought it four and half years ago. And it was way cheaper.

More importantly, Apple dropped the PowerBook name. This seems ridiculous. "PowerBook" was pretty well known among most computer users as being really fast and really nice. MacBook sounds like a child's version of the PowerBook. Steve Jobs said he wanted to drop "Power" since the dropped the PowerPC but Power also has a certain ring to it that implies, well, a powerful computer. So what is the iBook going to become? Just the plain old MacBook? Or will it be the MacBook Ghetto? And the PowerMac line? The MacMac?

Kudos, however, on the return to the black colored computers. Blackish, dark gray computers not only look really cool but they also don't get fucked up as easily. Take for instance any one you know with a white iBook. Most people, unlike me, don't clean them periodically. This leaves brown and black smudges from hand oil. It's gross.



Anyway, Apple released new iMacs and MacBooks with Intel chips (starting at $2000) but no new consumer laptops. This leaves me in the state I was in before, which is deparately wanting a new Mac, but wanting to hold out for a low cost Mactel laptop. Well, thanks Apple for updating your higher profit margin lines.

Apple also released a bunch of other programs that I, and most everyone else, will probably never use, let alone pay for:
.Mac
iLife '06
iWorks '06