Apple's decision to unleash Intel-based Mac systems six months ahead of schedule is proving less successful than the company anticipated. Two weeks following the Macworld Expo San Francisco keynote, sources report that sales of the Intel-based iMac are lower than Apple expected.
Not entirely surprising, really. Two factors: Speed increases not as fast as advertised, and the majority of the third-party apps (and even some Apple Pro apps, not that the iMac is their customary home) have not been ported to "Universal" binaries with native Intel support. It's early, though, and much like the PowerPC transition, once the developers get on board with Universal releases things will pick up.
Also when they release Virtual PC and it's blazing fast and runs all Windows games.
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Simultaneously releasing an Intel Mac and a way to run Windows safely at near-native speed would have been real news! I'm sure they once had hopes of that being their coming out party. Instead, they release a slightly stepped up version of a system they just recently stepped up and...wait for it...it doesn't even run all your software (not very well, anyway)!
Anyway, they gotta start doing fewer of these Macworld thingies or pretty soon they'll be hyping better bookmark management in Safari.
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