BostonHerald.com - Business Today: No revelation: Appleheads to feed on faith: " As for the wizard himself: A lot has been written about the pressure on Steve Jobs to amaze yet again.
But maybe the true test of a religious leader is when you no longer need to perform miracles. Your followers can survive on faith alone.
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The new computers look impressive. They’re much faster than previous models. The new MacBook Pro laptop, coming next month, is also thinner.
Nonetheless, they weren’t much of a surprise. The Intel collaboration was announced last year. The first products are hitting the shelves about five months ahead of the official deadline, but these days that may just be a feat of expertly managed expectations."
Other reality check dimensions:
1. A big part of that 2 - 4x performance improvement, until leading app vendors do native Intel Mac OS ports, is going to be applied to emulation and virtualization.
2. While there has been a lot of speculation about Apple's competitive stance with Windows, I'm surprised there hasn't been more coverage of the first wave of competitive ramifications from the Mac OS resurgence -- i.e., the fact that Linux on the desktop will remain a very specialized (shop floor, full-time data entry, green screen replacement...) scenario for the foreseeable future.
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