Finally, the long awaited Apple - Intel collaboration has come into fruition with the introduction of the rather cheesily named "MacBook Pro" and the latest iteration of the iMac.

Well I am drooling over the MacBook. Four times faster it says, well f its to be believed, the awesome has just become a little more awesome. But before jumping out with my wallet, I want to check it's compatibility, it's actual usability and effiency. Looks really good on paper, but then we have all seen what the Indian Cricket team is capable of!

The MacBook also contains Front Row (ie. a cheap copy of Windows MCE), but it does sport some other much better features including Apple's standard iLife suite, which is damn good in itself. It's also got PCI-X and a camera built in. The cost is still sky high. While many pundits and critics will be inspecting every positive and negative of Apple's latest products, one does have to be rather wary about three facts:

1. It is the funeral of the Powerbook line of Apple's notebooks which has served the company and countless users many many many times, me included.
2. It is also the funeral of the most stylish computer on the market - the 17inch Powerbook. Where the hell is its Intel counterpart??
3. Read Point 2.

Anyway, its time to bid farewell to the PowerPC processor in Apple's armoury because soon you are going to see all of them find themselves outdated.

On that point, Apple's cheeky line is pretty stupid in my opinion, if you go to the Apple homepage, you will know exactly what I mean, Intel processors have done more to advance PC technology over the past decades than the PowerPC has, so I really don't know what Apple is grinning about!

Anyway, MacBook is here. It seems some wishes do indeed come true.

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