Shipped!
Our team’s project shipped to customers today. As in June when it shipped to developers, you might have heard the news.
These are terrific systems, and I’m really excited that everyone will finally have a chance to use them.
On a semi-related note, Apple’s stock closed at $80.86 today. Somehow that seems appropriate, in a way that, say, $80.85 wouldn’t be.
Jonathan Johnson Said,
January 11, 2006 @ 5:48 am
And they look sexier than ever! Great work, and congratulations to your team. I just wonder how much smaller the new towers will be when they ship…
Diggory Laycock Said,
January 11, 2006 @ 6:01 am
Congratulations! Obviously a lot of hard work went into the new systems.
However, who the hell is in charge of naming things at Apple these days? ‘MacBook Pro’? - it’s ‘Bonjour’ and ‘Airport Extreme’ all over again…
Steve Canfield Said,
January 11, 2006 @ 4:59 pm
Hey, Congrats man! I know this must have been a ton of work and you guys seem to have handled it beautifully. My dad has already purchased one of the new books, I am waiting for a new enclosure or something that seems a little less rushed.
I am hearing a lot of grumbles from people about Altivec vs. SSE performance, and it doesn’t sound like a good situation. People are saying Altivec is 2X as fast. But Apple seems to be one of the big consumers of Altivec with FCP etc so I can’t imagine they would make this jump if that were true.
Oh well, faster laptops, yay.
Oskar Said,
January 13, 2006 @ 2:14 pm
8086… must be destiny, right? Anyway, congrats! Hope the Merom stuff gets done by WWDC so Steve won’t be left without the ability to roll out the heavy-weight machines.
Re: Steve Canfield. Me too wonders how the Altivec/SSE2(3?) makes out. Or does it really matter anymore, since the Intel procs seem to have much more room to grow, and that Merom will be fully 64-bit and everything else that’s great?