Wednesday, September 6, 2006 |
23:29 - iMac Core Duo, we hardly knew ye
http://www.apple.com/imac/
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Wow. iMacs go up to 24" now. And the entry-level 17" one comes in at under $1000. That consumer-level market segment keeps getting fatter and fatter, doesn't it?
The iMac has spent barely any time in Intel-land, and already it's on the second-generation chipset, with a claimed 1.5x speed increase. I guess the MBPs will go to Core 2 Duos pretty soon too; and when that happens, there'll be quite a spread in features and performance between the top and bottom end. The product line (particularly in the laptops) has spent a little too much time with too much overlap between the ends of the market; now they'll get to spread apart more comfortably and start swinging their elbows around again.
This Intel move sure does look like it's paying off well. That is, so long as those ten thousand layoffs at Intel don't end up impacting their ability to deliver...
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