Your Next PC will be from Apple

Whenever I see somebody say they are speaking at an event, they always seem to say they are 'keynoting' - like our esteemed host here.
I've always thought the keynote speech was the main (singular) speech that sets the tone for the event. According to the website there is one keynote (Steve Jobs) and the rest are feature presentations.
Just an observation…

I won't be at Macworld, but the other folks at CulctureCatch.com will. I've gotta be in the office. Blah.

The new Macs are definitely interesting, but I am not gonna invest in one right now, its too early and too possible for early adopter glitches. I will probably wait until a revision 3 or 4 and when the the Duo Core supports 64 bit extensions so I can run 64 bit Windows.

Haha, it's so true, I will be running windows along side OSX on my next apple laptop. Which will be the first time I will OWN a computer with windows on it in YEARS. Currently I only use them here and there at work when forced too. :)
BTW, thanks for the comment on my blog. :)

I'll never totally get rid of my Windows PCs, but I'm planning to buy a 17″ iMac for my next major computer-purchase (probably in March or April when I pay off my HP laptop).
I'm really interested in playing with it and learning something new. I'm not 100% loyal to any one OS — I see merit in learning everything I can absorb.
I'm also really excited to get my hands on iMovie and iDVD so I can edit old home movies and put them on DVD and also get into video blogging. I've disliked every Windows video editing program that I've used so far — if I could take the good aspects of each and combine them, I might be happy… but I've heard great things about iMovie on the Mac, so I'm excited to check it out.

Warning: I've been a total Apple fanboy since around 1980, so take any of my comments with a grain of salt.
What's remarkable here is not just that the new Macs will probably be able to run Vista (though not current versions of XP, or 2000, etc., because they require the old BIOS, not the EFI the new Macs use), but that Apple is shipping two lines of computers with a completely new architecture (for them) more than six months ahead of when they said they would earlier this year.
Not earth-shattering, but by contrast, when was Vista/Longhorn originally supposed to be shipping again? 2003? Apple is showing that it can do stuff fast and react nimbly. Witness also the RSS and podcasting integration moving around the OS. Podcasting was brand new in late 2004; within eight months, it was integrated into iTunes; a little over the year later, and GarageBand, iChat, and iPhoto are all part of a podcasting toolset.
Yes, I was there when Microsoft announced widespread RSS support in Vista (then still Longhorn) at Gnomedex last year. But you can get the Apple stuff today. Sure, Apple hasn't played nice with the RSS it generates (iTunes podcast RSS was a mess, and it looks like the new photocasting RSS is similarly bunged up), and things are tied too closely to .Mac. But suddenly it's easy to create a podcast RSS feed, which it certainly wasn't before. One of the reasons Apple has been able to get this stuff done so quickly is that they have largely ignored the RSS community during development. That has pluses and minuses.
Somehow, the company has also remained able to define what’s cool and what's “so over.” Maybe that won't persist forever, but I haven't seen evidence that Dell or HP or Sony or Panasonic or Alienware has the hardware design gusto to change things anytime soon.
I don’t think Apple will gain any great chunk of market share, because Vista will be better than XP, which improved on 2000 and 98. Google is more threat to Microsoft than Apple is (especially if a bunch of switchers to the Mac buy Windows to dual boot and a new copy of Mac Office). But Apple also isn't standing still with its OS and applications or its hardware, and has been revving the software side a lot faster than Microsoft has. And as Chris mentioned, so far Macs have avoided the spyware/virus problem pretty much entirely, which is not something to discount.
Incidentally, I checked some prices for Core Duo laptops from other manufacturers announced at CES last week, and they seem more expensive than the $2K machines Apple is making. And I haven't seen anyone else with an all-in-one LCD design as compelling as the iMac.
But no modem on the MacBook Pro? And that awful name? Well, I guess Apple has to drop at least some of the balls it's juggling.

I don't think for most people their next PC will be from Apple unless people like to pay the premium on an Apple machine. For many, price is still the #1 reason people will continue to buy a PC. Look at the nuts that line up overnight for those sub $400 laptops. Until you see Apple selling $400 at Wal*Mart, Apple will always be a niche brand from the computing standpoint.
Apple's first priority is always about design, not about functionality. Why did Apple add FM tuner support (via a remote) for the Ipod while others had fm tuner in the mp3 players for quite a while? Just as all the 3rd party accessory manufacturers make cool little add-ons for the Ipod, Apple can't wait to come out with their own and reign in more money for themselves.

Chris, are you seriously stating that people would buy the new Mac and then run Windows? If anything someone will figure out a runtime enviornment so that windows apps would run native. I can't wait for the day when I can ditch Windows. It's funny that I would consider $500 too much to spend on a low end windows machine but $2000 doesn't seem so unreasonable.

Good to see that things are still rollin' well for you, Chris. As for a Mac being the next computer I'd own, I have to disagree due to pricing. Apple has always been completely insane with their pricing and, unless it gets better, I don't really see me doing business with them in the future. I'd rather continue to build my own “Windows machines,” know exactly what my machine can do, and upgrade it as I see fit for much, much less of a cost.
-Debaser(Patrick B)

How is “it can run Vista” supposed to be a good thing? Ditto that for OSX (which can run on any x86 computer, by the way, if you install it yourself). Why would I want either of those?

I, personally, can’t stand Apple hardware. It feels so junky. All of the keyboards have those horrible rubber domes, and they’re even worse quality than Dell’s! I didn’t think that was possible.

As to the rest, the same could be said of Linux, which, unlike OSX, has really nice GUIs. Apple needs to ditch that universal menu bar ****. Yuck. Oh, and they need to ditch the mouse-reliance. Why can’t I alt+f to open the File menu on a Mac? Aqua is so annoying.

It all boils down to whether or not you feel these applications are something that will be useful to you as a user. If they are not, then why spend the money? Related Content:Macmall CouponsiPod Software UpdateYour Next PC will be from AppleI Hate IE6!PSP vs. iPod

It all boils down to whether or not you feel these applications are something that will be useful to you as a user. If they are not, then why spend the money? Related Content:Macmall CouponsiPod Software UpdateYour Next PC will be from AppleI Hate IE6!PSP vs. iPod

I just wish Apple wouldnt be so money-oriented and focus more on what the consumer wants. Every move in Apple’s history was to make money, i bet if you could run Mac OS X on a PC legally Apple would make more money than they are now because more PC fans who like PCs and OS X, but not Apples hardware, would be buying it. Microsoft killed themselfves with Vista, so once XP’s support runs out i think that microsoft is going down and Apple will take the market, unless they can save thier selfves with Windows 7, witch i doubt it, thier doomed.

- EvilHom3r